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The event is named after its Saturday night ritual, the burning of a wooden effigy.

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.Burning Man is an annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States.^ Black Rock TV : burning man love all year!
  • Burning Man Videos and News: Burning Man Videos // Current 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC current.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ And he rocked out with his fan club in the desert, Burning Man -style.
  • burning man Resources | BNET 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC resources.bnet.com [Source type: General]

 ^ It is right here in my neighboring state, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

 .The event starts on the Monday before and ends on the day of the American Labor Day holiday.^ For eight days ending each Labor Day weekend, a flat, white, dusty badland becomes an off-kilter outpost of civilization: Black Rock City.
  • Burned Out on Burning Man - July/August 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.sierraclub.org [Source type: News]

 ^ I’ve gone early to build and then left before the “event” started.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening.^ The power of Burning Man, and of the way the Temple embodies it, is that it provides you with templates of symbols to which you can assign meaning, in a world that has largely become bereft of ritual and ceremony.
  • Picasa Web Albums - Steve Boyett - Burning Man 2008 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC picasaweb.google.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Larry declared he’d take it on, and decided to do things a little different, to build a wooden sculpture to burn.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Get as many people from your camp as possible to take a pledge: "I will give two hours of my time to clean up the Burning Man site at large."

 .The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.^ Radical Self-expression .

 ^ Radical Self-reliance .

 ^ So much for radical self-expression.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]
.Burning Man is organized by Black Rock City, LLC.^ Outside of Black Rock It may be a never-never land where adults shed their everyday skins and, clad or not, flaunt their inner freaks, but Burning Man is not insulated from the outside world.
  • How green was Burning Man? | News Blog - CNET News 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC news.cnet.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Companies such as Microsoft, Google and Daewoo work with Burning Man organizations on both artistic and humanitarian projects.
  • Endless Summer - Burning Man Ignites Community All Year Round | JUST CAUSE (beta) 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC justcauseit.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Add New Event :: Search :: My Calendar :: Another User's Calendar : top of page © 1989-2009 black rock city, llc call: (415) TO-FLAME .

 .In 2008, 49,599 people participated in Burning Man.^ NORTH AMERICA'S BEST-KNOWN COUNTERCULTURAL gathering, Burning Man attracts more than 40,000 participants annually.
  • Burned Out on Burning Man - July/August 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.sierraclub.org [Source type: News]

 ^ I just returned from AfrikaBurn, South Africa's version of burning man (still small - 2000 or so people - but growing every year and still young!
  • Evolution on Vimeo 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC vimeo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The Burning Man festival is a week long affair, where fifty thousand participants make the pilgrimage to the center of an otherwise uninhabited desert.
  • Etsy :: The Storque :: This Handmade Life :: From Brooklyn to Burning Man: An Artistic Experiment 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.etsy.com [Source type: General]

 [1]

History

1986 to 1989

.The annual event now known as Burning Man began as a bonfire ritual on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a 9-foot (2.7-meter) wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.^ Burning Man Festival: Encyclopedia II - Burning Man - History The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight foot tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

 ^ Each subsequent summer solstice at Baker beach through 1990, it grew.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Burning Man by founder Larry Harvey.

 .Harvey has described his inspiration for burning these effigy figures as a spontaneous act of radical self-expression.^ Radical Self-expression .

 ^ The inspiration for burning these effigy figures has been shrouded in mystery by Harvey, who described it as "a spontaneous act of radical self-expression."

 ^ So much for radical self-expression.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]
The event did have earlier roots, though. .Sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, held solstice bonfire gatherings on Baker Beach for several years prior to 1986, some of which Harvey attended.^ However, sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, had held spontaneous art-party gatherings on Baker Beach on or about the ...

 ^ They got the idea after they had attended Baker Beach Solstice bonfires & art soirees hosted by Mary Grauberger in the early 80’s.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Burning Man Festival: Encyclopedia II - Burning Man - History The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight foot tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

 .When Grauberger stopped organizing it, Harvey "picked up the torch and ran with it," so to speak.^ I think the organizers do an amazing job setting up the temporary city, and I found it ran a lot smoother than I expected, especially given its scale.
  • Ape Culture - A Pop Culture Humor Webzine - Burning Man 2007 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.apeculture.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The Baker Beach parties were beach bonfire parties with little planned “participation” other than attendees picking up a rope to help raise the figure before torching.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I stopped by camp to pick Kyrsten up (took a slick tongue to get her out of bed that early) and 20 min later we are vacuum cleaned and seat belted in.

 .He and Jerry James built an 8-foot (2.4-meter) wooden effigy for 1986, which was much smaller and more crudely made than the neon-lit figure featured in the current ritual.^ Burning Man Festival: Encyclopedia II - Burning Man - History The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight foot tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

 ^ The burning started in 1986, when artists Larry Harvey and Jerry James built and spontaneously torched an eight-foot-tall wooden statue of a man at San Francisco's Baker Beach to honor the summer solstice.
  • Burned Out on Burning Man - July/August 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.sierraclub.org [Source type: News]

 ^ A small hand full of us helped Jerry James deconstruct (literally – OK?) the figure of the man and stored it at a lot Jerry had secured.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In 1987, the effigy grew to almost 15 feet (4.6 meters) tall, and by 1988, it had grown to around 40 feet (12 meters).^ I was most impressed by the giant iron flaming heart (12 feet tall) and Burning man (maybe 40 feet tall).
  • Burning Man Photos 2001 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC cockeyed.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The simple fact we have to face is the fact that burning man is Not a baby anymore, and an event that has grown to almost 40,000 people can not be public domaine.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ My first look at the man, maybe 40 feet tall.
  • Burning Man Photos 2001 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC cockeyed.com [Source type: General]
.Harvey swears that he did not see the movie The Wicker Man until many years later, so it played no part in his inspiration.^ I took a look at aerial shots (see below) once I got home and you can see many years of scars left from having the event out there.

 ^ I have thought that the best thing for the spirit of Burning Man would be to cancel it one year and see what happens.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You can already see in commercials, movies and other media many of the facets of the event that originate out on the playa.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Accordingly, rather than allow the name "Wicker Man" to become the name of the ritual, he started using the name "Burning Man".[2]

1990 to 1996

.In 1990, a separate event was planned by Kevin Evans and John Law on the otherworldly, remote and largely unknown dry lake known as Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles north of Reno.^ Its current location is on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, at 40°45′17″N, 119°14′11″W or 90 miles north-northeast of Reno.

 ^ Burning Man takes place in the middle of a normally uninhabited desert environment known as a playa, which is deep in the middle of a large, prehistoric dry l ...

 ^ When park police declared the fires too dangerous, the artists moved their event to the Black Rock Desert, a prehistoric lakebed northeast of Reno.
  • Burned Out on Burning Man - July/August 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.sierraclub.org [Source type: News]

 [3] .Evans conceived it as a dadaist event with temporary sculpture to be burned and situationist performance art.^ Burning Man is a fun stupid party to go to, but it’s not high art (well, some of the art folks bring is, but the event itself not so much).
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Burning Man Festival: Encyclopedia II - Art destruction - Intentional destruction Many works of visual art are intended by the artist to be temporary.

 ^ The idea of leaving no visible trace is a central part of the Burning Man zeitgeist, a performance-art process move.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 .He asked John Law, who also had experience on the dry lake and was a defining founder of Cacophony Society, to take on central organizing functions.^ I could understand John Law suing if the other co-founders of Burning Man had done something unjust.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jerry James looked me and the Cacophony Society up in 1988 and asked for our help and by 1990 we were integrally involved in the Baker Beach party.” .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thanks to John Law, Larry Harvey, and the multitude of others who either intentionally or inadvertently helped create Black Rock City and Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In the Cacophony Society's newsletter, it was announced as Zone Trip #4, A Bad Day at Black Rock (inspired by the movie of that name).^ For eight days ending each Labor Day weekend, a flat, white, dusty badland becomes an off-kilter outpost of civilization: Black Rock City.
  • Burned Out on Burning Man - July/August 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.sierraclub.org [Source type: News]

 ^ I decided to present the scheme to my good friend John Law (whom I had met through my involvement in The San Francisco Cacophony Society) and that was when the idea for “Zone trip 4, Bad day at Black Rock” was officially hatched as a cacophony event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When I returned to the Bay Area & started my final year in art school, I rallied a few friends & schoolmates around the idea of planning a Labor Day weekend trip to the Black Rock desert.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
Meanwhile, the beach burn was interrupted by the park police for not having a permit. .After striking a deal to raise the Man but not to burn it, event organizers disassembled the effigy and returned it to the vacant lot where it had been built.^ We all built Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What Burning Man is now symbolizes a lot of that for me.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I just returned from AfrikaBurn, South Africa's version of burning man (still small - 2000 or so people - but growing every year and still young!
  • Evolution on Vimeo 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC vimeo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 Shortly thereafter, the legs and torso of the Man were chain-sawed and the pieces removed when the lot was unexpectedly leased as a parking lot. The effigy was reconstructed, led by Dan Miller, Harvey's then-housemate of many years, just in time to take it to Zone Trip #4.[4]
.Michael Mikel, another active Cacophonist, realized that a group unfamiliar with the environment of the dry lake would be helped by knowledgeable persons to ensure they did not get lost in the deep dry lake and risk dehydration and death.^ Burning Man takes place in the middle of a normally uninhabited desert environment known as a playa, which is deep in the middle of a large, prehistoric dry l ...

 ^ Jeff realized something was terribly wrong, based on Bill’s reaction but did not appreciate the gravity of the situation until after he helped Bill to his feet and they stumbled across the graveled clearing.

 ^ If there was any way that they could have written out John Law I’m sure they would have tried, but he hung on much longer than I did.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .He took the name Danger Ranger and created the Black Rock Rangers.^ Burning Man was originally created on the beaches of San Francisco before moving to the Black Rock Desert, a dried up lake bed known as the playa.
  • Burning Man Videos and News: Burning Man Videos // Current 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC current.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ When park police declared the fires too dangerous, the artists moved their event to the Black Rock Desert, a prehistoric lakebed northeast of Reno.
  • Burned Out on Burning Man - July/August 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.sierraclub.org [Source type: News]

 ^ Black Rock City took some heat for rebuilding the figure rather than leaving its ashes be.
  • How green was Burning Man? | News Blog - CNET News 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC news.cnet.com [Source type: General]
.Thus the seed of Black Rock City was germinated, first organized by Law and Mikel, based on Evans's idea, along with Harvey and James'd burning man.^ My first Burning Man was 1996.
  • Derek M. Powazek: Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.powazek.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Read more here: » Burning Man: Encyclopedia II - Burning Man - Black Rock City .

 ^ Burning Man by founder Larry Harvey.

 It grew by word of mouth alone.
.1991 marked the first year that the event had a legal permit with the BLM (the Bureau of Land Management).^ The BLM wouldn’t issue a permit to an organization without insurance and an insurance company wouldn’t write a policy to a bunch of volunteers trying pull of an event this size.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 10:00 pm Dan Glass 96 was my first year out there, and a mystical event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You must be at least 18 years of age or with a legal age parent or guardian to attend the event.
  • The (hopefully) All Inclusive List of Questions Regarding 2010 Tickets 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC tickets2.burningman.com [Source type: General]

 [5]

1997 to present

The neon-tubed Man at the 1999 event
1997 was a pivotal year for the event. .The car-friendly, open dry lake had become over-run with 10,000 attendees and was deemed too dangerous to continue in the same way with unrestricted driving.^ Not to sound like one of those 'you should have been there' guys, but it was WAY better when it was only 10,000 people.
  • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

 .To implement a ban on driving and re-create the event as a pedestrian/bicycle/art car-only event, it was decided to move the event to private property.^ Can I drive an art car and talk to my GF on the cell at the same time?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Greg Barron Rideable Bicycle Replicas www.hiwheel.com Posted Under: art cars This post was written by admin on September 24, 2009 Comments (1) .

 ^ I felt I had entered a parallel world, only this time it was a burningman LLC power grab monopoly on an “art” car full of burners, ecstasy and techno.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Fly Ranch with the adjoining Hualapai mini dry lake-bed was chosen.^ Burning Man was originally created on the beaches of San Francisco before moving to the Black Rock Desert, a dried up lake bed known as the playa.
  • Burning Man Videos and News: Burning Man Videos // Current 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC current.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ We were in a desert lake bed, but it wasn't the Hualapai Flat.

 ^ But I knelt to the ground and ran dry fingers through the damp grass, bliss for fingertips chapped by dust from the dead lake bed of the playa.
  • How green was Burning Man? | News Blog - CNET News 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC news.cnet.com [Source type: General]

 .This brought Burning Man into the jurisdiction of Washoe County permitting.^ I saw all the years that you put both your time and money into the Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I ran into him at Burning Man, told him what I was doing and he kindly gave me his CD - this song was perfect for what I wanted to do for this reel.
  • Evolution on Vimeo 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC vimeo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The event morphed from a Cacophony event into Burning man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 To comply with the new permit requirements and to manage the increased liability load, the organizers formed Black Rock City, LLC.
.Since then, one of the challenges faced by the LLC has been trying to balance the freedom of participants - a defining element of the experience - with the requirements of BLM and various law-enforcement groups.^ If there wasn’t an event the BLM and the law enforcement etc.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I'd like to know what the BLM and other law enforcement agencies are collecting.
  • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

 Over the years, numerous restrictions have been put in place, such as:
  • An imposed curved grid street structure.[6]
  • A speed limit of 5 mph (8 km/h).[7]
  • A ban on driving, except for approved "mutant vehicles" and service vehicles.[8]
  • Restrictions and imposing of safety standards on mutant vehicles.[7]
  • A ban on campfires and Tiki torches.[9]
    • .
  • Burning your own art must be done on an approved burn platform.^ If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for your own purposes beyond the 'fair use' exception, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
    • Burning My Republican Card, Leaving the Republican Party | Culture Wars 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.rightsidenews.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Im sure you have kids would you burn your own house down so your family dont have anywhere to live i bet not.......
    • Muskegon man accused of burning down house he was buying | Muskegon News - - MLive.com 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.mlive.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ I think the basic hippie dictum of Do your own thing in your own time applies pretty well to Burning Man.
    • Ape Culture - A Pop Culture Humor Webzine - Burning Man 2007 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.apeculture.com [Source type: General]

     [10]
  • A ban on fireworks.[11]
  • A ban on firearms.[12]
  • A ban on dogs.[13]
.Another notable restriction to attendees is the 7-mile-(11 km) long temporary plastic fence that surrounds the event and defines the pentagon of land used by the event on the southern edge of the Black Rock dry lake.^ Its current location is on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, at 40°45′17″N, 119°14′11″W or 90 miles north-northeast of Reno.

 ^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Outside of Black Rock It may be a never-never land where adults shed their everyday skins and, clad or not, flaunt their inner freaks, but Burning Man is not insulated from the outside world.
  • How green was Burning Man? | News Blog - CNET News 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC news.cnet.com [Source type: General]

 [14] This 4-foot (1.2 meter) high barrier is known as the "trash fence" because its initial use was to catch wind-blown debris that might escape from campsites during the event. .Since 2002, the area beyond this fence has not been accessible to Burning Man participants during the week of the event.^ Burning Man 2002 was even better.
  • Derek M. Powazek: Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.powazek.com [Source type: General]

 ^ This includes: Street painting Sand mandala Festivals where artwork is destroyed: The week-long Burning Man festival in the desert of Nevada, USA. With tens of thousands of participants who must pay a fee to a ...

 ^ I'll always remember the big things - the man burning, the Vogon camp, the look in Heather's eye as we biked the outer fence.
  • Derek M. Powazek: Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.powazek.com [Source type: General]

 [citation needed]
.At 1:25 AM on August 28, 2007, at the exact moment of the Total Lunar Eclipse, Paul Addis, a well-known, longtime participant and gadfly of Burning Man, who had previously pranked the Man as early as 1997, set the Man on fire four days ahead of schedule.^ A flashback to Burning Man 1997.
  • Derek M. Powazek: Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.powazek.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The Man Burns: 1997 Photographs of the burning of the Man.
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Set Burning Man loose.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 [15] .A replacement effigy was built on-site and installed in time to be burned on Saturday as planned.^ This is the time to tour the site, because Burning Man is truly weird then.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In June 2008, he pled guilty to the felony charge of destruction of property over $5,000 and was sentenced to 1–4 years in prison.^ Daniel VanAvery Daniel VanAvery, whose address on court records was listed as 1585 Sixth, is charged with arson of a dwelling house, a 20-year felony.
  • Muskegon man accused of burning down house he was buying | Muskegon News - - MLive.com 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.mlive.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 As of July 2009, Addis remains incarcerated; however, he is reported to have been granted parole effective February 2010.[citation needed]

Timeline of the event

Year Height from ground to top of Man Location Participants Ticket price Theme Notes
1986 8 ft (2.4 m) Baker Beach, San Francisco 20 Free None Larry Harvey & Jerry James build & burn wooden man on Baker Beach on the summer solstice, following a ritual bonfire tradition begun by Mary Grauberger
1987 20 ft (6.1 m) Baker Beach 80 Free None
1988 30 ft (9.1 m) Baker Beach 150-200 Free None
1989 40 ft (12 m) Baker Beach 300+ Free None First listing of Burning Man in the San Francisco Cacophony Society newsletter, "Rough Draft" under "sounds like cacophony."
1990 40 ft (12 m) Baker Beach / Black Rock Desert, Nevada 500 / 120 Free None Figure erected at Baker Beach on Summer Solstice (June 21) but not burned. Man is invited to San Francisco Cacophony Zone Trip #4 on Labor Day weekend in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
1991 40 ft (12 m) Black Rock Desert 250 None First year of neon on the man.
1992 40 ft (12 m) Black Rock Desert 600 None
1993 40 ft (12 m) Black Rock Desert 1,000 None
1994 40 ft (12 m) Black Rock Desert 2,000 None
1995 40 ft (12 m) Black Rock Desert 4,000 $35 Good and Evil
1996 48 ft (15 m) Black Rock Desert 8,000 $35 The Inferno Theme featuring Dante's Inferno/HeLLCo. First year the man is elevated on a straw bale pyramid and guns banned in central camp. First fatality in motorcycle collision. 3 people seriously injured in a tent run over by a car.[2] .10 of 16 BLM stipulations violated, putting BM on probationary status for next year.^ I was a ranger in 96, did pyro for Pepe’s opera, and Hellco, and had put a lot of years and work into BM. .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Next year I will put more effort into dressing up.
  • Ape Culture - A Pop Culture Humor Webzine - Burning Man 2007 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.apeculture.com [Source type: General]

 An injury claim drives liability coverage up by a factor of 6.
1997 50 ft (15 m) Hualapai Playa 10,000 $65 Fertility The BM org. forms management structure, the DPW to meet strict permit requirements newly imposed. First year the city has grid streets and driving banned. Washoe County Sheriff's department takes over the gate, impounding all money - after the fire and protection fees are increased astronomically shortly before the event.
1998 52 ft (16 m) Black Rock Desert 15,000 $80 – $90 Nebulous Entity
1999 54 ft (16 m) Black Rock Desert 23,000 $65 – $130 Wheel of Time Listed in the AAA's RV guide under "Great Destinations."
2000 54 ft (16 m) Black Rock Desert 25,400 $200 The Body First active law enforcement activity, 60 .Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and police arrests and citations.^ BLM - Winnemucca - Burning Man The Bureau of Land Management has a Web site about Burning Man.
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 Most are for minor drug charges following surveillance and searches
2001 70 ft (21 m) Black Rock Desert 25,659 $200 Seven Ages See .Seven Ages of Man.^ As each year must have a new theme, this year's theme was " the seven ages of man" .

 Over 100 BLM citations and 5 arrests
2002 80 ft (24 m) Black Rock Desert 28,979 $135–$200 The Floating World First year for FAA approved airport. 135 BLM citations and 4 Sheriff citations
2003 79 ft (24 m) Black Rock Desert 30,586 $145–$225 Beyond Belief Dogs are banned for the first time. 177 BLM citations, 9 police citations, 10 arrests and 1 fatality.[16]
2004 80 ft (24 m) Black Rock Desert 35,664 The Vault of Heaven 218 BLM citations, some issued from decoy 'art car'. Camps giving away alcohol subjected to state law compliance examinations and 1 arrest. Pershing County Sheriff's office: 27 cases, 4 arrests, 2 citations. Nevada Highway Patrol: 2 DUI arrests, 217 citations, and 246 warnings were issued. Malcolm in the Middle used burning man in one of their episodes.
2005 72 ft (22 m) Black Rock Desert 35,567 $145 – $250 Psyche - The Conscious, Subconscious & Unconscious The Man can be turned by participants. 218 BLM citations and 6 arrests.
2006 72 ft (22 m) Black Rock Desert 38,989 $185 – $280 Hope and Fear: The Future The Man goes up and down reflecting a hope/fear meter. 155 BLM citations and 1 arrest. Pershing County Sheriff's office: 1 citation and 7 arrests. Nevada Highway Patrol: 234 citations, 17 arrests, and 213 warnings.
2007 65 ft (20 m) Black Rock Desert 47,366[17] $195 – $280 The Green Man The Man set on fire around 2:58 AM, August 28, during full Lunar eclipse. A repeat Burning Man prankster, Paul Addis, was arrested and charged with arson.[18] (article no longer available), and the Man was rebuilt for regular Saturday burn.^ Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:28 AM on 09/18/2009 - + albany tim I'm a Fan of albany tim I'm a fan of this user permalink Every year Burning Man makes a financial report available to the public.
  • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Of course, yahoos who have no appreciation for the Burning Man culture attend every year.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ As others have said, the best way for Burning Man to leave no ecological impact would be for it not to take place.
  • How green was Burning Man? | News Blog - CNET News 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC news.cnet.com [Source type: General]

 .Addis pleaded guilty in May 2008 to one felony count of injury to property, was sentenced to up to four years in Nevada state prison, and was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution.^ Being a 25 year resident of Nevada I am quite familiar with just how hostile this redneck little state is to anything expressive.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And what of volunteers who work their way into a paid position and then have that pay rate cut over time rather than increase as with this year’s clean up crew .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 16, 2008 at 7:47 pm rc Why should only one man burn once a year?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 [19] 331 BLM citations.
2008 84 ft (26 m) Black Rock Desert 49,599[1] $210 – $295 American Dream First year that tickets are not sold at the gate..[20] The size and layout of the city is enlarged to accommodate a larger central playa and a longer Esplanade.^ Satellite image You'll get a wide angle view of the playa with the layout of Black Rock City dimly etched on the surface.
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 .Because of excessively high winds and whiteout conditions on Saturday, the burning of the Man was delayed for over an hour and a half and the fire conclave was canceled.^ Saturday, the last day of August Fiends in human guise greeted the dawn by wailing for half an hour on didgeridoos.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you think you have operated under adverse conditions, try an outdoor shack at Burning Man.
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Burning Man does this, I think, because of a combination of factors.
  • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

 Many long time contributors opted out allegedly due to the chosen theme, jailing of dissenter Addis, and the founders' rift. The perimeter of BRC extended to 9 miles. The BLM made 6 arrests and issued 129 citations.
2009 66 ft (20 m) Black Rock Desert 43,435 $210 – $360 Evolution: A Tangled Bank Tickets sold at the gate once again. As the result of some criticism, the size and layout of the city was return to roughly the same as the 2007 event. The BLM officials said that as of noon Saturday, 41,059 people were at the festival, and the crowd peaked at 43,435 at noon Friday.
2010 TBD Black Rock Desert TBD $210 - $300 Metropolis: The Life Of Cities
Note: The man itself has remained close to 40 feet (12 meters) tall since 1989. Changes in the height and structure of the base account for the differing heights of the overall structures.[citation needed]
.The statistics to the right illustrate the growth of the Burning Man event.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ That leads us to the climax of the event: Burning man.
  • Burning Man - Zoobird 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.zoobird.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I really want to go to burning man to experience this myself one year, but I have one problem with the depiction of the event as non-capitalistic.
  • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

 [21]
The event has gone through several changes, including growing from a small handful of people to over 49,500 people attending the event in 2008. The scale of the event has increased enormously, and Black Rock City, LLC has become more structured since its creation in 1997.
.Burning Man 2006 was covered extensively for television for the first time by subscription television channel Current TV which handed out cameras to participants and broadcast daily updates via satellite from the dry lake.^ This will be my first time at Burning Man and I'm going with my dad!
  • ePlaya :: View topic - Kids & Teenagers at Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC eplaya.burningman.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Time is running out on the beloved Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, the Mark Nichols/Erik Davis vehicle that attempts to both explain and capture the ethos of SF's favorite festival: Burning Man.
  • Burning Man News - Topix 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.topix.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The idea that one can do drugs, barter for goods and live out fantasies in a controlled environment for a short time before rejoining society makes Burning Man appealing to all kinds of folks.
  • Burning Man News - Topix 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.topix.com [Source type: General]

 ."TV Free Burning Man" also provided TV viewers an hour-long live feed of The Burn and was shown without commercial sponsorship.^ The power of Burning Man, and of the way the Temple embodies it, is that it provides you with templates of symbols to which you can assign meaning, in a world that has largely become bereft of ritual and ceremony.
  • Picasa Web Albums - Steve Boyett - Burning Man 2008 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC picasaweb.google.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Visited the i-STORM trailer where the World Wide Web contingent is putting together the live Burning Man Web site, www.istorm.com/burningman/ .
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I guess “Burning Man” is easier to remember than “Blow the Living Crap Out of Him Man” .
  • Picasa Web Albums - Steve Boyett - Burning Man 2008 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC picasaweb.google.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 TV Free returned in 2007 and 2008; the 2007 coverage was nominated for a news Emmy Award[22]
.Black Rock City is not considered a Census-designated place according to the United States Census Bureau.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you think twittering and texting and calling out to the real world will effect this illusion of a free world called Black Rock City?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .If it were, the 2000 event attendance would have placed it between Carson City and Pahrump, making it the 7th largest city in the state of Nevada at the time.^ The best advice I could give would be to attend the event yourself first and then make a determination as to the ability of your teenager to handle such an event.
  • ePlaya :: View topic - Kids & Teenagers at Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC eplaya.burningman.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Everyone else got out (barely in time) while two of the event organizers stayed behind, as did I (I used to be an EMT so it would have been wrong to leave) and so did John.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We all who believe in the source will one more time gather in the place where you took the event to start.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Since then, Paradise, Sunrise Manor, and Spring Valley (all suburbs of Las Vegas) experienced proportionally larger population growths than the rest of the state, pushing Black Rock City to the 10th largest city in Nevada according to 2004 census estimates (still between Carson City and Pahrump)[23]

Principles

)'( is an iconic representation of The Man.
.Because of the variety of goals fostered by participatory attendees, known as "Burners," Burning Man does not have a single focus.^ What does the name “burning man” signify for all you burners?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This not a question of cult worship here, it’s simply a question of who does the name ‘burning man’ belong to.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Features of the event are subject to the participants and include community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification and revelry. Participation is encouraged.^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.

 [24]
.The Burning Man event is governed by 10 principles, which are radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.^ There's no vending at Burning Man -- it's a gift economy.
  • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

 ^ So much for radical self-expression.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Working for the Man Interview with BLM's Black Rock Desert National Recreation Area states that other groups are now held to a higher standard because the people of the DPW "do a phenomenal job of leaving no trace."
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 [25]
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  • Radical inclusion - Anyone who can afford a ticket is gladly welcomed and there are no prerequisites to be part of Burning Man.^ There is life after burning man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There's no vending at Burning Man -- it's a gift economy.
    • Jay Michaelson: The Truth About Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.huffingtonpost.com [Source type: General]

     ^ No matter how you rationalize it, gay relationships and gay marriage are WRONG! Anyone who says otherwise is spreading the lies of Satan.
    • ksl.com - Burning body found near freeway in Perry 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.ksl.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     [25] .All participants are expected to provide for their own basic needs and follow the minimal rules of the event.
  • Gifting - Instead of cash, event participants are encouraged to rely on a gift economy, a sort of potlatch.^ BORG and the attendees “own” the event because of their ongoing participation and contribution, not because of what they did in the past.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In one sense, each person is expected to take care of their own needs.

     .In the earliest days of the event, an underground barter economy also existed, in which burners exchanged "favors" with each other.^ I respect my fellow Burners enough to not invade their space by using the phone for anything other than an urgent matter and letting my son know mommy still exists and loves him and will return in a few days.
    • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

     .While this was originally supported by the Burning Man organization, this is now largely discouraged.^ What Burning Man is now symbolizes a lot of that for me.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The power of Burning Man, and of the way the Temple embodies it, is that it provides you with templates of symbols to which you can assign meaning, in a world that has largely become bereft of ritual and ceremony.
    • Picasa Web Albums - Steve Boyett - Burning Man 2008 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC picasaweb.google.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ And in some small way, that includes those of us who are a part of Burning Man now, in every part we play.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Instead, burners are encouraged to give gifts to one another unconditionally.
  • Decommodification - No cash transactions are permitted between attendees of the event which is in accordance with the principles of Burning Man.^ What does the name “burning man” signify for all you burners?
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We need to get to work not haggle over the one thing that sustains us all – Burning Man!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Cash can be used for a select few charity, fuel and sanitation vendors as follows:[26]
    • Café beverages such as coffee, chai, lemonade, etc., which are sold at Center Camp Café, operated by the organizers of the event.^ Click on the picture, then use your cursor arrows to scroll straight up to center camp, or use your hand grabber to drag the photo around.
      • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

       ^ Not because the organizers were mismanaging or misappropriating funds, but because the event had been breaking even , or operating in the red (losing money) for many years.
      • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ But the event organizers don’t own those things and each and every one of the event participants are free to use these things as they want without permission or interference from the event organizers.
      • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

       [27]
    • Ice.[28] .Ice sales benefit the local Gerlach-Empire school system.
    • Tickets for the shuttle bus to the nearest Nevada communities of Gerlach and Empire which is operated by a contractor not participating in the event Green Tortoise.^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
      • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.

       ^ With today’s technology they could create a completely transparent accounting system that displays ticket sales and event production costs in as close to real time as possible, viewable online by anyone, anywhere with internet access.
      • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

       [29]
    • A re-entry wristband, which allows a person to leave and re-enter the event and may be purchased at the gate upon exit.[30]
    • An airport use fee, payable at the airport upon first entry.[31]
    • Diesel and biodiesel sold by third-party contractors
    • RV dump service and camp graywater disposal service.[32]
      • .
    • Private portable toilets and servicing, which can be arranged with the official contractor.
  • Radical self-reliance - Because of the event's harsh environment and remote location, participants are expected to be responsible for their own subsistence.^ BORG and the attendees “own” the event because of their ongoing participation and contribution, not because of what they did in the past.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ So much for 'radical self reliance' if you're excited by cell service on the playa.
    • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

     ^ But the event organizers don’t own those things and each and every one of the event participants are free to use these things as they want without permission or interference from the event organizers.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Since the LLC forbids any commerce, participants must be prepared and bring all their own supplies with the exception of the items stated in Decommodification.^ While Burning Man, and all it stands for, cannot be “owned” by anyone as everyone that participates helps to create it, it is important for it to remain under legal ownership of dedicated burners.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     [33]
    • .
  • Radical self-expression - Participants are encouraged to express themselves in a number of ways through various art forms and projects.^ Radical Self-expression .

     ^ So much for radical self-expression.
    • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

     ^ Explicit language, explicit illustrations, explicit directions on safe sex, manners among the naked, and radical self- expression.
    • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

     The event is clothing-optional and public nudity is common, though not practiced by the majority.[34][35]
    .
    The event is clothing-optional, and public nudity is common.
  • Communal effort - Participants are encouraged to work with and help fellow participants.^ We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

     ^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.

     [36]
    • .
  • Civic responsibility - Participants are encouraged and assume responsibility to be part of a civil society in which federal, state and local laws are obeyed and communicate this to other participants.^ The Burner Community Potluck values civil society.

     ^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.

     [36]
    • .
  • "Leave No Trace" - Participants are committed to a "Leave No Trace" event.^ We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather.

     ^ Tell everyone that you’re going to a "Leave-No-Trace" event.

     ^ Clean Living Interview with BLM's public affairs officer confirms that Burning Man leaves no trace.
    • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

     .They strive to leave the area around them in better condition than before their arrival to ensure that their participation does not have a long-term impact on the environment.^ We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

     ^ The Baker Beach parties were beach bonfire parties with little planned “participation” other than attendees picking up a rope to help raise the figure before torching.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     [36]
    • .
  • Participation - Burning Man is about participation.^ When the man's about to collapse from sheer conflagration, some brave and hefty folks grab a pair of dangling steel cables from the Burning Man's shoulders.
    • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ NOTE: Some of the photos show people in various stages of dress and in costumes which some may find provocative -- that's what Burning Man is all about.
    • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

     [36]
    • .
  • Immediacy - Participants are encouraged to become part of the event, to experience who and what is around them and to explore their inner selves and their relation to the event.^ There is no way to predict what would actually happen and what the effect would be on the event/movement/organization and the experience of those who would attend future burns.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.

     [36]

Art

.Art on the dry lake is assisted by the Artery, which helps artists place their art in the desert and ensures lighting (to prevent accidental collisions), burn-platform (to protect the integrity of the dry lake bed), and fire-safety requirements are met.^ Your extra $10 will help subsidize one of our 150+ artists and volunteers, and save more money for art grants.

 ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Although some of the artists may plan on burning their art on the playa, many of the works are permanent and will be shared with others off the playa.
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 [37]
.Since 1995, a different theme has been created, ostensibly by Larry Harvey, for each year's event.^ Thanks to John Law, Larry Harvey, and the multitude of others who either intentionally or inadvertently helped create Black Rock City and Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Larry has been gradually neutered and stripped of any real authority over the years by others in the LLC so that today he’s little more than the event figurehead planning the theme and helping design what the man will stand on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We’ll watch as a myriad of lesser events and organizations (with different aims and values) claim the name as their own, in the hopes of somehow legitimizing their creations with an extant community.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .For 2006, the theme was Hope and Fear[38], and for 2007, it was The Green Man.^ January 10, 2007 at 6:29 pm Third and Eternity The fears about “multinational corporations” swooping in and making Burning Man trinkets is laughable.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 7:46 pm Doug Rutley Well, I hope that your intent is to truly live to the ideals of Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In honor of the Hope and Fear of the Future theme from this last spectacular burn: .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 [39][40] It determines to some extent the design of the Man (although his design and construction, while evolutionary, has remained relatively unchanged) and especially the structure on which he stands (an Observatory for "Vault of Heaven," a Lighthouse for "The Floating World"). These themes also greatly affect the designs that participants employ in their artworks, costumes, camps and vehicles.[41]
.Burning Man primarily features outsider art and visionary art, though a great variety of art forms appear during the event.^ Burning Man is an art gig by tradition.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Burning Man is good art.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Creative expression through the arts and interactive art are encouraged at Burning Man.^ Summary: Burning Man is about art, creativity, and freedom from commercialism.
  • The Burning Man Table of Contents 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.cieux.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Burning Man is an art gig by tradition.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Burning Man is good art.
  • 4.11: Greetings from Burning Man! 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.wired.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Numerous Theme Camps, registered and placed by the LLC, are created as event and residence centers by sizable sub-communities of participants and use extensive design and artistic elements to engage the greater community and meet the LLC's interactivity requirements.^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Larry has been gradually neutered and stripped of any real authority over the years by others in the LLC so that today he’s little more than the event figurehead planning the theme and helping design what the man will stand on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We’ll watch as a myriad of lesser events and organizations (with different aims and values) claim the name as their own, in the hopes of somehow legitimizing their creations with an extant community.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Music, performance and guerrilla street theatre are art forms commonly presented within the camps and developed areas of the city. .Adjacent to the city, the dry lake bed of Lake Lahontan serves as a tabula rasa for hundreds of isolated artworks, ranging from small to very large-scale art installations, often sculptures with kinetic, electronic and fire elements.^ I'm standing In the middle Of A dry lake Bed In the desert .
.Artwork is generally viewed as a gift that the artist makes to the community, although art grants are available to participants from the LLC via a system of curation and oversight, with application deadlines early in the year.^ I’ve received many gifts in the past from participants with the logo and name and assume that the LLC’s involved have no problem with this.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Although some of the artists may plan on burning their art on the playa, many of the works are permanent and will be shared with others off the playa.
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 .Grants are intended to help artists produce work beyond the scope of their own means, and are generally intended to cover only a portion of the costs associated with creation of the pieces, usually requiring considerable reliance on an artist's community resources.^ Your extra $10 will help subsidize one of our 150+ artists and volunteers, and save more money for art grants.

 ^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

 .Aggregate funding for all grants varies depending on the number and quality of the submissions (usually well over 100) but amounts to several percent (on the order of $500,000 in recent years) of the gross receipts from ticket sales.^ Million in ticket sales and 600,000 plus, from the “cafe that loses money”…… .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ While we're on the topic, could the folks that run BM find it in their hearts to cap ticket sales at 35-40,000 maximum?
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 ^ Doing this will not impede their ability to manage and organize the event, sell tickets, pay themselves, and any artists, vendors and tradesmen as they choose using ticket sales receipts.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 In 2006, 29 pieces were funded.
Various standards regarding the nature of the artworks eligible for grants are set by the Art Department of the LLC, but compliance with the theme and interactivity are important considerations. .This funding has fostered artistic communities, most notably in the Bay Area of California, the region that has historically provided a majority of the event's participants.^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 There are active and successful outreach efforts to enlarge the regional scope of the event and the grant program. .Among these is the Black Rock Arts Foundation (BRAF).^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’d much rather go to that than to the “Black Rock Arts Festival.” .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s disgusting to see these traits becoming more and more prevalent, even as they are thinly concealed by mechanisms like the Black Rock Arts Foundation.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.While BRAF does not fund any installations for the event itself, it relies on the donations from the LLC for a significant portion of its funding, and does facilitate presentation of work created for the event in outside venues as well as offering its own grants for artworks that typify interactivity and other principles and traditions the event.^ Burning Man is a fun stupid party to go to, but it’s not high art (well, some of the art folks bring is, but the event itself not so much).
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I simply refuse to put my time, effort, and minimal funds into an event so people can sue each other over the “proper use” of the name.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We’ll watch as a myriad of lesser events and organizations (with different aims and values) claim the name as their own, in the hopes of somehow legitimizing their creations with an extant community.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Mutant vehicles

A Mutant Vehicle, often motorized, are purpose-built or creatively altered cars and trucks. .Participants who wish to bring motorized mutant vehicles must submit their designs in advance to the event's own DMV or "Department of Mutant Vehicles” for approval and for physical inspection at the time of the event.^ Like many, I have put considerable time and money into my participation – helping with art projects, organizing a camp, helping to put on various events at the festival, and so on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ BORG and the attendees “own” the event because of their ongoing participation and contribution, not because of what they did in the past.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We all who believe in the source will one more time gather in the place where you took the event to start.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Not all designs and proposals are accepted. .The event organizers, and in turn the DMV have set the bar higher for what it deems an acceptable MV each year, in effect capping the number of Mutant Vehicles.^ January 11, 2007 at 11:16 pm Limerick “Two years later on the heels of the disastrous (for the organizers) 96 BM I resigned from active involvement in the event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Two years later on the heels of the disastrous (for the organizers) 96 BM I resigned from active involvement in the event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is no way to predict what would actually happen and what the effect would be on the event/movement/organization and the experience of those who would attend future burns.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .This is in response to constraints imposed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, who grant permits to hold the event on federal property, and to participants who want it to remain a pedestrian friendly environment.^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.

 ^ But the event organizers don’t own those things and each and every one of the event participants are free to use these things as they want without permission or interference from the event organizers.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ BLM - Winnemucca - Burning Man The Bureau of Land Management has a Web site about Burning Man.
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 Vehicles that are minimally altered, and/or whose primary function is to transport participants are discouraged or rejected. .One of the criteria the DMV employs to determine if an application for a proposed Mutant Vehicle is approved is "can you recognize the base vehicle". In other words, if your 1967 VW van can still be recognized as a VW van (underneath all that glitter, those glued on dolls heads and attached old cooking utensils)it is considered to be "decorated not mutated" and is less likely to be approved.^ REALLY? Amid all the other distractions out there, a phone ringing is going to kill your buzz?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Also, you may be able to scam a free pair or two of those two-week, leave-in-all-the-time disposables if you inquire with your eye doctor.

 ^ I think it’s still appropriate to tell your boss/significant other/etc that you are not contactable while out on the playa.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 .This criteria led to the exclusion of some "Art Cars", which historically have been a staple of the event.^ Burning Man is a fun stupid party to go to, but it’s not high art (well, some of the art folks bring is, but the event itself not so much).
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Some particularly interesting vehicles include: giant motorized muffins, an 8 legged mechanical spider and a Beatles style Yellow Submarine.[42]

Bikes

Bicycles and tricycles are extremely popular for getting around on the dry lake. Mountain bikes are generally preferred over road bikes for riding on the dried silt, which is normally hard but becomes loose with traffic. Participants often decorate their bikes to make them unique. .Since lighting on the bikes is critically important for safety at night, many participants incorporate the lighting into their decorations, using Electroluminescent wire (a thin, flexible tube that glows with a neon-like effect when energized with electricity) to create intricate patterns over the frame of the bike.^ Like many, I have put considerable time and money into my participation – helping with art projects, organizing a camp, helping to put on various events at the festival, and so on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Stop trying to use this forum to drag me into a debate over things you’re still bitter about, I’m not participating.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To the northeast I could see a neon sign glowing against the night sky.

 .On the night the Man burns (Saturday), thousands of bikes and art cars drive around, creating a visual display similar to Las Vegas at night, except that the lights are mobile.^ Ride your bike at Burning Man.
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 ^ Man, in ‘96, lots of art cars.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Art Cars, Page 1 People at Burning Man do strange things to cars.
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The Temple

.In addition to the burning of the Man, the burning of a temple has become an activity at the event.^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 12, 2007 at 11:49 am geekboy “the burning man term becomes equivalent to the term “spring break”.” .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 David Best's temple projects were ritually burned from 2000 to 2004.[43]
In 2005, Best stepped aside to allow for another artist, Mark Grieve, to build his own interpretation of a temple.[44] .Grieve's temples were seen in both 2005 and 2006. However, in 2007 David Best took over the temple building duties for one last time.^ One last point, I don’t think everything about the event is perfect by any means, but I’ve seen a lot learning and improving over the years to have hope.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 14, 2007 at 7:14 pm Mister E Posts are coming in so fast that I waited overnight to submit my last one and it’s already almost irrelevant.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We all who believe in the source will one more time gather in the place where you took the event to start.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 The 2007 Temple was named "The Temple of Forgiveness." .Best has stated that it is time to hand the temple over to the community, and in 2008 the "Basura Sagrada" temple was a collaboration of Shrine and Tucker Teutsch 3.0, built with the extensive help of their friends and the greater Burning Man community.^ Mars From the Burning Man Survival Guide: Q: What if friends or family at home need to reach me for an emergency?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Building Community at Burning Man One way to build community at Burning Man is with a well- run community kitchen.
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 ^ Party Time at Burning Man Photographs of party goers at Burning Man -- style on the playa is de rigeur , or something like that.
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 [45] In 2009, the Temple for Burning Man was built in Austin, Texas[46]

Black Rock City

Satellite image of Black Rock City showing the familiar "C" or semicircle pattern.
.Black Rock City, often abbreviated to BRC, is the name of the temporary city created by Burning Man participants.^ I added "The Man" in black rock city to foursquare.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ And of course foursquare had to get in on the action and quickly added Black Rock City to their database so people could check in.
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 .Much of the layout and general city infrastructure is constructed by Department of Public Works (DPW) volunteers who often reside in Black Rock City for several weeks before and after the event[47][48].^ Working for the Man Interview with BLM's Black Rock Desert National Recreation Area states that other groups are now held to a higher standard because the people of the DPW "do a phenomenal job of leaving no trace."
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 ^ Article Title: The Art of Burning Man Black Rock City, as the town centered around Burning Man is known, is now the third largest city in Nevada, although it exists for only one week a year.

 ^ Working for the Man Great story on the DPW volunteers and the incredibly great job they do.
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 .The remainder of the city including theme camps, villages, art installations and individual camping are all created by participants.^ Like many, I have put considerable time and money into my participation – helping with art projects, organizing a camp, helping to put on various events at the festival, and so on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Of my 9 years,I have created deep playa art installations for 6 of them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

City planning

.The developed part of the city is currently arranged as series of concentric streets in an arc composing, since 1999, two-thirds of a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) diameter circle with the Man Sculpture and his supporting complex at the very center (40°46′9.48″N 119°13′12.36″W / 40.7693°N 119.2201°W / 40.7693; -119.2201 in 2007).^ January 12, 2007 at 11:36 am Quick links « Truly Outrageous [...
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Art at Burning Man 1999 Two pages of the art at Burning Man that blew us away.
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 ^ John Law and I started a company called Central Sign Service with the primary goal of supporting John in order for him to work on Burning Man part time.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Radial streets, sometimes called Avenues, extend from the Man to the outermost circle. The outlines of these streets are visible on aerial photographs.
.The innermost street is named the Esplanade, and the remaining streets are given names to coincide with the overall theme of the burn, and ordered in ways such as alphabetical order or stem to stern, to make them easier to recall.^ In early 97 Larry, M2 and I formed “Paper Man LLC” in order to own the name Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 For example, in 1999, for the "Wheel of Time" theme, and again in 2004 for the "The Vault of Heaven" theme, the streets were named after the planets of the solar system. The radial streets are usually given a clock designation, for example, 6:00 or 6:15, in which the Man is at the center of the clock face and 12:00 is in the middle of the third of the arc lacking streets (usually at a bearing of 60° true from the Man). .These avenues have been identified in other ways, notably in the 2002, in accordance with "The Floating World" theme as the degrees of a compass, for example, 180, 175 degrees.^ The swerve has been the other way and guess what, the Muslim world has noticed.
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 and in 2003 as part of the Beyond Belief theme as adjectives ("Rational, Absurd") that caused every intersection with a concentric street (named after concepts of belief such as "Authority, Creed") to form a phrase such as "Absurd Authority" or "Rational Creed". However, these proved unpopular with participants due to difficulty in navigating the city without the familiar clock layout.
.The Black Rock City Airport is constructed adjacent to the city, typically on its southern side.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you think twittering and texting and calling out to the real world will effect this illusion of a free world called Black Rock City?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 The airport serves a variety of aviation traffic, including private airplanes, helicopters, hot air balloons, ultralights, gliders, and skydivers.[49]

Center Camp

.Center Camp is located along the mid line of Black Rock City, facing the Man at the 6:00 position on the Esplanade.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .This area serves as a central meeting place for the entire city as well as contains the Center Camp Cafe, Camp Arctica and a number of other city institutions.^ And I can't imagine how annoying it would be in center camp cafe to listen to some frat boy yacking to his bros about all the nekkid chicks he sees.
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Villages and theme camps

.Villages and theme camps are located along the innermost streets of Black Rock City, often offering entertainment or services to participants.^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you think twittering and texting and calling out to the real world will effect this illusion of a free world called Black Rock City?
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 [50].
Theme camps are usually a collective of people representing themselves under a single identity. Villages are usually a collection of smaller theme camps which have banded together in order to share resources and vie for better placement.
.Theme camps and villages often form to create an atmosphere in Black Rock City that their group envisioned.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you think twittering and texting and calling out to the real world will effect this illusion of a free world called Black Rock City?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .As Burning Man grows every year and attracts an even more diverse crowd theme camps are Black Rock City's own subcultures similar to what can be found in every other city.^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I added "The Man" in black rock city to foursquare.
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 ^ Nancy) in the early years of Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Volunteering

.The Burning Man event is heavily dependent on a large number of volunteers.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’m seeing spanned over a number of forums, “Burning Man belongs to us…the Burners…let’s take the power back and make it like it used to be”.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm billysirr John, I hope that this does not precipitate the end of the event that we know as Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Many of these participants donate their time and energy to the event[51]

Safety, policing and regulations

.Black Rock City is patrolled by various local and state law enforcement agencies as well as the Bureau of Land Management Rangers.^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you think twittering and texting and calling out to the real world will effect this illusion of a free world called Black Rock City?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 .Burning Man also has its own in-house group of volunteers, the Black Rock Rangers, who act as informal mediators when disputes arise between participants and between participants and law enforcement.^ Working for the Man Interview with BLM's Black Rock Desert National Recreation Area states that other groups are now held to a higher standard because the people of the DPW "do a phenomenal job of leaving no trace."
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 ^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I could understand John Law suing if the other co-founders of Burning Man had done something unjust.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Firefighting, emergency medical services (EMS), mental health and communications support is provided by the volunteer Black Rock City Emergency Services Department (ESD).^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How do you think twittering and texting and calling out to the real world will effect this illusion of a free world called Black Rock City?
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Transportation

Commercial airports

.The airport with regular commercial service closest to the event is the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, approximately a 3-hour drive.^ Nevada The Civilized Explorer Travel Information Page on Nevada, and particularly the Reno/Tahoe/Sparks area, with links the airport, restaurants, and places to stay.
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 An airport spokesperson said in 2009 that 15,000 burners arrive to the event via the airport annually, making it the second-busiest time for them. .In 2008 and 2009, an information desk for burners was organized in Reno airport.^ Nevada The Civilized Explorer Travel Information Page on Nevada, and particularly the Reno/Tahoe/Sparks area, with links the airport, restaurants, and places to stay.
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San Francisco, seven hours away by car, is the nearest airport with a high volume of international service

Temporary airstrip

.A section of the Playa is used for a non-permanent airport, which is set up before each event and completely erased afterward.^ As such, I use Nair the night before I hit the playa.

 Pilots began camping there randomly about 1995, and once compelled to add structure, it was established in a form acceptable to the BLM in 1999 through the efforts of Tiger Tiger (Lissa Shoun) and LLC board member Mr. Klean (Will Roger). In 2009 it was officially recognized by the FAA and designated 88NV. .Though it receives logistical support from BMORG and operates an event gate and box office for them, it is technically an independent entity (theme camp).^ The store we started was a theme camp in Gerlach poking fun at the event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 It is found on the Klamath Falls Sectional, using a CTAF of 122.9 MHz. The Black Rock Unicom is operational on that frequency during daylight hours. The runway is simply a compacted strip of playa, and is not lighted.[52] Because of the unique air traffic and safety issues associated with the airport, pilots are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with the published information and procedures.[53]
Advantage Flight Solutions operates an air charter service that flies to and from the Reno airport.[54]

Shuttles

There are prepaid shuttles, originating in Reno and San Francisco, that move participants to and from the event. During the event there is also a paid shuttle between the event and the nearby towns of Gerlach and Empire. Exiting and reentering the event requires an additional fee, and is highly discouraged.

Other

Participants also share rides and hitchhike.

Criticism

Concerns regarding the "Leave No Trace" policy

.Burning Man takes place in the middle of a large playa and while not inhabited by humans itself, the area around the playa is home to many animal and plants.^ The “real” Burning Man is not an object or place.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You are sitting in a pile of playa preparation, but you are still wondering, "How do I tend to my vanity and creature comforts when I am at Burning Man?"

 ^ Mars From the Burning Man Survival Guide: Q: What if friends or family at home need to reach me for an emergency?
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

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.Supporters of Burning Man point out that participants are encouraged to leave no trace (LNT) of their visit to Black Rock City and not to contaminate the area with litter, commonly known as MOOP (Matter Out Of Place).^ I added "The Man" in black rock city to foursquare.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ The “real” Burning Man is not an object or place.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And of course foursquare had to get in on the action and quickly added Black Rock City to their database so people could check in.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 .Despite the BLM and LLC insistence on the practice of LNT, the amount of residual trash at the site has increased over the years.^ Because of his bitterness he never misses an opportunity to talk trash about or bash the LLC. I’ve known Schaber for several years.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

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Damage to the Playa

.While fire is a primary component of many art exhibits and events, materials must be burned on a burn platform.^ Like many, I have put considerable time and money into my participation – helping with art projects, organizing a camp, helping to put on various events at the festival, and so on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Burning Man is a fun stupid party to go to, but it’s not high art (well, some of the art folks bring is, but the event itself not so much).
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For the first time, I was not front row at the burn, I was dissassembling my art and creating a small bon fire on the deep playa.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 [10] .At one time, burning was allowed to take place directly on the ground of the playa, but this practice allowed burn scars to form and was discontinued.^ For the first time, I was not front row at the burn, I was dissassembling my art and creating a small bon fire on the deep playa.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I've been taking my kids to the playa for years and to the burn for the past couple.
  • ePlaya :: View topic - Kids & Teenagers at Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC eplaya.burningman.com [Source type: General]

 ^ We all who believe in the source will one more time gather in the place where you took the event to start.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .On the last day, public shared burn areas are prepared for participants to use.^ I took advantage of the rest break and used the last indoor plumbing I would see for a few days.

 ^ While not disagreeing with the view that the participants of Burning Man should not be tightly controlled on how they use the name, releasing a mark to the public domain is not quite so inconsequential an event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Share Kristin I would be stoked about cell phones on the playa, but only because my birthday is on the 5th (the day the man burns!
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 .While Burning Man does provide instructions on how to build a Burn Platform and what not to burn, there are concerns on whether some participants do not follow these instructions to the detriment of the environment and the participants.^ There is life after burning man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You are sitting in a pile of playa preparation, but you are still wondering, "How do I tend to my vanity and creature comforts when I am at Burning Man?"

 ^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

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.Even water is not to be dumped on the playa, and used shower water must be captured and either evaporate off, or collected and carried home with each participant.^ The water truck came by and people were tearing off clothes and running behind the truck to shower off the dust and grime.

 ^ After breakfast I packed compass and camera, strapped on my water-bottle and hiked off towards the playa.

 Methods used for evaporating water normally include a plastic sheet with a wood frame. .The playa dust often blows into these catch basins and some participants end up with a muddy mess to take home.^ Helpful tip: soak your baby wipes with some vinegar as it will help take off the playa dust.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 Careful design of small scale evaporating ponds has become an engineering competition, to see what works best.
The Bureau of Land Management, which maintains the desert, has very strict requirements for the event. These stipulations include trash cleanup, removal of burn scars, dust abatement, and capture of fluid drippings from participant vehicles. .For four weeks after the event has ended, the Black Rock City Department of Public Works (BRC - DPW) Playa Restoration Crew remains in the desert, cleaning up after the temporary city and making sure that no evidence of the event remains.^ Make-up on the playa: Make-up can do neat things.

 ^ Black Rock City was clearly temporary -- a tent city built of dreams.

 ^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

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Burning Man and its effect on global warming

.A group of San Francisco scientists are calculating how much the event will contribute to global warming.^ Although then as now many people contributed much to the event often with no concern for money, M2 & I were putting so much time into the event that we were broke and starving.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 [60] .They have created the CoolingMan organization[61] and have implemented a system that will calculate how much greenhouse gases Burning Man participants will create.^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You are sitting in a pile of playa preparation, but you are still wondering, "How do I tend to my vanity and creature comforts when I am at Burning Man?"

 ^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The project has inspired many to look for positive ways to get involved in the global warming and climate change movements by seeking out solutions.^ Burning Man may be a life-changing experience, but it doesn’t always change your life in a positive way.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It was a peak example of a way of living that many people had never considered, even if it’s something they’d been subconciously looking for.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 The CoolingMan website suggests ways that Burners may offset the damage by planting trees or investing in alternative energy solutions.[62]
.However, in 2007 Burning Man's "Green Man" theme received criticism for Crude Awakening, the 99-foot oil derrick that consumed 900 gallons of jet fuel and 2,000 gallons of liquid propane to blast a mushroom cloud 300 feet high into the sky.^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 7:46 pm Doug Rutley Well, I hope that your intent is to truly live to the ideals of Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

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In an attempt to offset some of the event's carbon footprint, 30- and 50-kilowatt solar arrays were constructed in 2007 as permanent artifacts, providing an estimated annual carbon offset of 559 tons.[40]

On-site photography restrictions

.Despite presenting itself as an event promoting self-expression, the terms of the Burning Man ticket require that participants wishing to use video-recording equipment (including, in practice, most digital cameras) sign over copyright in their images to Black Rock City, and forbid them from using their images for anything other than personal and private use.^ The sign had Burning Man symbols drawn on it.

 ^ Shouldn’t the idea of a burning man be stronger than the object itself..
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I added "The Man" in black rock city to foursquare.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 This has been criticized by many, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[64][65]
.A Burning Man spokeswoman replied that the policies are not new, were written by a former head of the EFF, were used when suing to block pornographic videos and ultimately arose from participant concerns: "We’re proud that Black Rock City (a private event held on public land) is widely acknowledged as a bastion of creative freedom.^ I added "The Man" in black rock city to foursquare.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ Apparently the service is mostly coming from a temporary tower that was installed on some leased land near Frog Pond, which is less than a mile from the trash fence that marks the border of Black Rock City.
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 [B]ut that protection [of participant's freedoms] does necessitate the acceptance of some general terms of engagement when it comes to cameras... .EFF seems to think that anyone attending any event somehow has an absolute right to take photographs, and then to do whatever they want with those images without any effective restriction or manner of enforcement.^ Those who think they can and those who think they can't are both right.
  • ePlaya :: View topic - Kids & Teenagers at Burning Man 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC eplaya.burningman.com [Source type: General]

 ^ If ANYONE involved in Burningman thinks a lawsuit is the right way to solve their problems, then this festival is dead, at least to me.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This event, we need a name, will take place somewhere in Hunters Point I think .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .While we believe that such rights do make sense for any of us taking pictures in purely public spaces, this is not true in the private space of Burning Man — if it were it would mean that Burning Man couldn’t protect participant privacy or prevent commercialization of imagery."^ It also means introducing yourself to folks if you're new, helping to clean up during and after the potluck and taking initiative to make the potluck more fun.

 ^ You will still have a wonderful experience, get out meet your fellow BRC citizens and participate in the making of some art and you will be so far ahead of the game of 'experience burning man as it was back then'..
  • Cell Phones at Burning Man | Geeked Info 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC www.geeked.info [Source type: General]

 ^ But before you get your hopes up, know that the chance of this service making it through Burning Man without melting down is slim to none.
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Regional events

See also: List of regional Burning Man events
.The popularity of Burning Man has encouraged other groups and organizations to hold events similar to Burning Man.^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I could understand John Law suing if the other co-founders of Burning Man had done something unjust.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.In recent years, burners wishing to experience Burning Man more frequently than once per year have banded together to create local regional events such as SOAK[3] in Oregon; InterFuse in Missouri; Lakes of Fire in Michigan; Element 11 in Utah, Xara Dulzura and Fuego de los Muertos in San Diego; Apogaea in Colorado; Playa del Fuego in Delaware; Firefly in New England; Burning Flipside in Texas; AuraMan in Indiana; Recompression near Vancouver, British Columbia; Kiwiburn in New Zealand; Rebirth in Hawaii; Source in Maui; Transformus in North Carolina; Toast in Arizona; Freezer Burn between Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada; AfrikaBurn in South Africa and NoWhere near Zaragoza in Spain.^ Only one man should burn once a year!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The closer I got to The Man, the more numerous the fires.

 ^ Nancy) in the early years of Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Some of the events are officially affiliated with the Burning Man organization via the Burning Man Regional Network.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And in some small way, that includes those of us who are a part of Burning Man now, in every part we play.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm billysirr John, I hope that this does not precipitate the end of the event that we know as Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .This official affiliation usually requires the event to conform to certain standards outlined by the Burning Man organization, and to be substantially coordinated by a "Burning Man Regional Contact," a volunteer organizer with an official relationship to the Burning Man Project via a legal Letter of Agreement.^ The BLM wouldn’t issue a permit to an organization without insurance and an insurance company wouldn’t write a policy to a bunch of volunteers trying pull of an event this size.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm billysirr John, I hope that this does not precipitate the end of the event that we know as Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In exchange for conforming to these standards, the event is granted permission to officially advertise as a Burning Man Regional Event.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s interesting that everyone so afraid of Coke advertising for Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm billysirr John, I hope that this does not precipitate the end of the event that we know as Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.latimes.com/theguide/events-and-festivals/la-gd-burning30-2008aug30,0,1036082.story
  2. ^ (Doherty, Brian (July 2006). This Is Burning Man. Benbella Books. pp. 33. ISBN 978-1-932100-86-0. )
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/1986_1996/
  5. ^ http://www.nv.blm.gov/news_releases/Press_Releases/fy06_releases/nr_wfo_33.htm
  6. ^ Burning Man: Preparation - 2007 BRC MAP
  7. ^ a b Burning Man: On The Playa: Playa Vehicles: DMV
  8. ^ Burning Man: On The Playa
  9. ^ Burning Man :: preparation :: SAFETY
  10. ^ a b Playa Protection and Burn Scar Prevention
  11. ^ Burning Man :: preparation :: LAW ENFORCEMENT AT BURNING MAN
  12. ^ Burning Man :: preparation :: PARTICIPANT RESPONSIBILITIES
  13. ^ Burning Man: Preparation
  14. ^ Burning Man :: AfterBurn Report 2006 :: DPW :: Set Up and Clean Up
  15. ^ "A Fiery Q&A With Paul Addis, the Prankster Accused of Burning the Man". http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3544780&page=1. Retrieved 2007-08-30. 
  16. ^ "Woman dies when run over by 'art car'". CNN.com. 31 August 2003. Archived from the original on 1 January 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080101142538/http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/08/31/burning.man.death.ap/index.html. Retrieved 16 November 2009. 
  17. ^ San Francisco Chronicle
  18. ^ news article(no longer available)
  19. ^ Burningman.com 2007 news
  20. ^ The (hopefully) All Inclusive List of Questions Regarding 2008 Tickets
  21. ^ a timeline on BurningMan.com
  22. ^ http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_29th_nominees_data_list.html
  23. ^ U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts for Nevada
  24. ^ What is Burning Man? "There are no rules about how one must behave or express oneself at this event (save the rules that serve to protect the health, safety, and experience of the community at large); rather, it is up to each participant to decide how they will contribute and what they will give to this community. ... Participants are encouraged to find a way to help make the theme come alive...."
  25. ^ a b 10 principles of Burning Man
  26. ^ No Cash Transactions
  27. ^ Coffee
  28. ^ Camp Arctica
  29. ^ Shuttle Service
  30. ^ Burning Man: What is Burning Man?: FAQ
  31. ^ Burning Man: On The Playa
  32. ^ Burning Man: Preparation
  33. ^ Burning Man :: preparation :: RADICAL SELF RELIANCE
  34. ^ Burningman.com Event Preparation
  35. ^ What I Saw at Burning Man
  36. ^ a b c d e Burning Man: Participate Main
  37. ^ Burningman.com Art Installations
  38. ^ Burningman.com 2006 Theme
  39. ^ Burningman.com 2007 Theme: The Green Man
  40. ^ a b Scheff, Jonathan (September 2007). "Data Points: Green Burning Man". Scientific American (Black Rock City: Scientific American, Inc.) 297 (3): pp. 34. http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=508C50AF-3048-8A5E-106081CECBFE6889. Retrieved 2008-08-03. 
  41. ^ Burningman.com Event Archives
  42. ^ Burningman.com DMV
  43. ^ Art of Burning Man
  44. ^ Burning Man :: AfterBurn Report 2005 :: Art :: Playa Art
  45. ^ Current // Items
  46. ^ Community Art Makers
  47. ^ Burning Man: On The Playa
  48. ^ Burning Man: On The Playa
  49. ^ Black Rock City Airport
  50. ^ Theme Camps
  51. ^ Burningman.com Volunteering page.
  52. ^ Burning Man: On The Playa
  53. ^ Port of Entry
  54. ^ Advantage Flight Solutions' Burning Man page
  55. ^ Burning Man 2006-2010
  56. ^ Bureau of Land Management Trash Concerns
  57. ^ Burning Man: Resources - Burn Effects
  58. ^ Burning Man: Preparation
  59. ^ Bureau of Land Management
  60. ^ SFGate Global Warming and Burning man article
  61. ^ The CoolingMan website
  62. ^ Coolingman.org CoolingMan Calculator
  63. ^ Jolia Sidona Allen, Common Ground Magazine "Green Party", May 2008, Elsa Wenzel, How green was Burning Man?, September 17 2007, Brian Doherty, Wired Blog Network Underwire "Crude Awakening Arises at Burning Man", August 2007.
  64. ^ http://www.burningman.com/media/doc/preparation/event_survival/09_PUA.pdf
  65. ^ http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/snatching-rights-playa
  66. ^ http://blog.burningman.com/?p=4599

Further reading

.
  • Bőnner, Bertine 2005. Das Burning Man Projekt - Religiosität und Spiritualität in Black Rock City?^ After a fairly short drive, we arrived at the entrance to Black Rock City.

     ^ It was jazz in the afternoon and I was now a fully participating member of Black Rock City.

     ^ I was walking southeast -- away from the playa and towards the southern outskirts of Black Rock City.

     Eine ethnologische Perspektive. Magisterarbeit. .Grin Verlag
  • Bruder, Jessica 2007. Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man.^ January 18, 2007 at 8:01 pm BlueTunaYoYo I have really enjoyed reading the posts–I have read the Doherty book, and the voices on this blog help add some colour to my sense of what Burning Man is….or was… .
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ A more detailed account of the preceding story can be found in Brian Dougherty’s history of BM: “This is Burning Man” Little Brown Publishers.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .New York: Simon and Schuster
  • Chen, Katherine 2004. The Burning Man Organization Grows Up: Blending Bureaucratic and Alternative Structures.^ John Law, whom I know to be an honorable man, has neither received the credit due him or appropriate compensation for his efforts in organizing, planning and executing Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I’m a transplanted midwestern geek who learned of Burning Man from the Bruce Sterling Wired article, and found himself in the middle of the organization a few years later.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I really can’t see my relatives in New Jersey having any interest in buying Burning Man chapstick.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Dissertation. .Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
  • Chen, Katherine K. 2009. Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event.^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm billysirr John, I hope that this does not precipitate the end of the event that we know as Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
  • Chen, Katherine K. and Siobhán O’Mahony. .2009. “Differentiating Organizational Boundaries.” Research in the Sociology of Organizations 26: 183-220.
  • Doherty, Brian 2004. This is Burning Man.^ A more detailed account of the preceding story can be found in Brian Dougherty’s history of BM: “This is Burning Man” Little Brown Publishers.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ John Law, whom I know to be an honorable man, has neither received the credit due him or appropriate compensation for his efforts in organizing, planning and executing Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I’m a transplanted midwestern geek who learned of Burning Man from the Bruce Sterling Wired article, and found himself in the middle of the organization a few years later.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     The Rise of a New American Underground. .Boston/New York: Little, Brown and Company
  • Cortez, Donn 2005. The Man Burns Tonight: A Black Rock City Mystery.
  • Hockett, Jeremy 2004. Reckoning Ritual and Counterculture in the Burning Man Community: Communication, Ethnography, and the Self in Reflexive Modernism.^ Red rock Mountains Sage brush Sand Sunrise desert (Burning Man) .

     ^ Che Guevara tee-shirts and Burning Man sneakers I think make great company for one another.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Dissertation. Albuquerque, New Mexico: The University of New Mexico
  • Kozinets, Robert V. 2002. Can Consumers Escape the Market? Emancipatory Illuminations from Burning Man. In: Journal of Consumer Research, 29, June 2002, 20-38.
  • Kozinets, Robert V. (2003), “The Moment of Infinite Fire,” in Time, Space, and the Market: Retroscapes Rising, ed. Stephen Brown and John F. Sherry. Jr., New York: M. E. Sharpe, 199-216.
  • Kozinets, Robert V. and John F. Sherry, Jr. 2005. “Welcome to the Black Rock Café,” in Afterburn: Reflections on Burning Man, ed. Lee Gilmore and Mark van Proyen, Albequerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 87-106.
  • Kozinets, Robert V. and John F. Sherry, Jr. (2004), “Dancing on Common Ground: Exploring the Sacred at Burning Man,” in Rave Culture and Religion, ed. Graham St. John, New York and London: Routledge, 287-303.
  • Kreuter, Holly 2002. Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man. .San Francisco: Raised Barn Press
  • Kristen, Christine: Reconnecting art and life at Burning Man.^ There is life after burning man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Your strange combination of nillisum, hero-worship, sad hippy cliche, and self-centeredness typifies way too much of the Burning Man ‘life’.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Art pageant features machine art by San Francisco’s “Seemen” troupe.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     in: Raw Vision, Nr. .57 (Winter 2006), S. 28 - 35.
  • Morehead, John W. 2007. Burning Man Festival as Life-Enhancing, Post-Christendom 'Middle Way'. MA Thesis.^ There is life after burning man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 9, 2007 at 4:34 pm Thomas Terashima I would like to thank John Law for helping bring “that thing in the desert” to life.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 10, 2007 at 5:11 am Big Cock It’s hard to imagine Burning Man belonging to everyone more than it already does.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Salt Lake City, Utah: Salt Lake Theological Seminary
  • Nash, A. Leo 2007. Burning Man: Art in the Desert, Introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck.^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 9, 2007 at 7:46 pm Doug Rutley Well, I hope that your intent is to truly live to the ideals of Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 12, 2007 at 11:49 am geekboy “the burning man term becomes equivalent to the term “spring break”.” .
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     New York: Harry N. Abrams
  • Pike, Sarah M. 2001. Desert Goddesses and Apocalyptic Art. .Making Sacred Space at the Burning Man Festival.^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I’m seeing spanned over a number of forums, “Burning Man belongs to us…the Burners…let’s take the power back and make it like it used to be”.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     In: Mazur, Eric Michael/McCarthy, Kate (Hrsg.): God in the Details. American Religion in Popular Culture. London/New York: Routledge, 155-176
  • Roberts, Adrian, ed. "Burning Man Live: 13 years of Piss Clear, Black Rock City's alternative newspaper" San Francisco: RE/Search Publications.
  • Sherry, John F. Jr. and Robert V. Kozinets (2007), "Comedy of the Commons: Nomadic Spirituality and the Burning Man Festival," in Russell W. Belk and John F. Sherry, Jr., ed. Research in Consumer Behavior, Vol. 11: Consumer Culture Theory, Oxford: Elsevier, 119-147.
  • Sherry, John F., Jr. and Robert V. Kozinets (2004), “Sacred Iconography in Secular Space: Altars, Alters and Alterity at the Burning Man Project,” in Contemporary Consumption Rituals: A Research Anthology, ed. Cele Otnes and Tina Lowry, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 291-311.
  • Sherry, John F. Jr., Robert V. Kozinets, and Stefania Borghini, and. .(2007), “Agents in Paradise: Experiential Co-Creation through Emplacement, Ritualization, and Community,” in Consuming Experiences, ed.^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Antonella Carù and Bernard Cova, London and New York: Routledge, 17-33.
  • Traub, Barbara 2006. Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography.^ Red rock Mountains Sage brush Sand Sunrise desert (Burning Man) .

     ^ Literaly speaking none of you legaly own the words “burning man” in relation to the event in the desert.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     San Francisco: Immedium
  • Van Proyen, Mark/Gilmore, Lee (Hrsg.): AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press

External links

  • Official Website
  • Burning Man at the Open Directory Project
  • Burning Man at the Yahoo! .Directory
  • Several quality videos covering Burning Man 2008
  • Dust & Illusions.^ January 16, 2008 at 7:47 pm rc Why should only one man burn once a year?
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 10, 2007 at 7:23 pm eBlips » Legal Dust-Up Between Burning Man Founders [...
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .An in-depth documentary exploring 30 years of history of Burning Man.^ Nancy) in the early years of Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ A more detailed account of the preceding story can be found in Brian Dougherty’s history of BM: “This is Burning Man” Little Brown Publishers.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I’m a transplanted midwestern geek who learned of Burning Man from the Bruce Sterling Wired article, and found himself in the middle of the organization a few years later.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .By Olivier Bonin.
  • Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man A scrapbook-style account of Burning Man with interviews, photographs and ephemera.^ A more detailed account of the preceding story can be found in Brian Dougherty’s history of BM: “This is Burning Man” Little Brown Publishers.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ A more concise history may be found in Brian Doherty’s “This is Burning man”.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I was never rewarded for any of my work, in fact I have been written out of Burning Man history because I began to question the direction that Burning Man was taking.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .By Jessica Bruder.
  • Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event An ethnography of the growing organization that runs Burning Man.^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:31 pm billysirr John, I hope that this does not precipitate the end of the event that we know as Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     By Katherine K. Chen
  • BURNcast.tv A video/audio podcast spreading the flames about the art, culture and community of Burning Man
 
Black Rock Desert Region
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Travel guide

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

From Wikitravel

Central monument of Black Rock City: The Man
Central monument of Black Rock City: The Man
.Black Rock City, Nevada is an ephemeral town that exists for only one week each year, during Burning Man [1], a radical arts festival.^ "We used to put the trees out earlier, and one year the city came and picked them up.
  • Burning, Man - The law was clear. So was the tradition. How a New Year's bonfire in Mid-City became a cause célèbre in the week before Christmas. - News & Views - News Feature - Gambit - New Orleans 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC bestofneworleans.com [Source type: General]

 ^ How a New Year's bonfire in Mid-City became a cause célèbre in the week before Christmas.
  • Burning, Man - The law was clear. So was the tradition. How a New Year's bonfire in Mid-City became a cause célèbre in the week before Christmas. - News & Views - News Feature - Gambit - New Orleans 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC bestofneworleans.com [Source type: General]

 ^ The guard pulled out a white slip, wrote "Burning Man" on it, and asked me to pull over into one of the stalls.

 .At its maximum occupancy, the town has about 50,000 citizens and a post office, an emergency services crew, a volunteer police department, roads, houses, bars, clubs, restaurants, and hundreds of art installations and participatory "theme camps". After a week, the city is completely disassembled – much of it burned – leaving the stark, white desert exactly as bare as it had been when the event started.^ The store we started was a theme camp in Gerlach poking fun at the event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The night before, more than 150 citizens showed up for an acrimonious meeting at Grace Episcopal Church with City Council members Shelley Midura and Arnie Fielkow and members of the city's police and fire departments.
  • Burning, Man - The law was clear. So was the tradition. How a New Year's bonfire in Mid-City became a cause célèbre in the week before Christmas. - News & Views - News Feature - Gambit - New Orleans 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC bestofneworleans.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Literaly speaking none of you legaly own the words “burning man” in relation to the event in the desert.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Understand

The Burning Man festival is an annual event started in San Francisco in 1986 and moved to the harsh and unforgiving Black Rock Desert of Nevada in 1990, where it continues today. .The event happens each year in late August and early September, during the week before Labor Day weekend and over the weekend itself.^ Labor Day weekend, 1989.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ (In all, 6 years every Labor day) .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And John has no right to be angry even, huh, from the events that happened years ago?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Around 50,000 artists, partiers and eccentrics converge on the desert location – otherwise empty throughout the year – to create a temporary city on the desert lake bed ("The Playa").^ Of my 9 years,I have created deep playa art installations for 6 of them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ From the Burning Man timeline 1996 Height of Man: 50 feet Location: Black Rock Desert Participants: 8,000 .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ BM is a movement, and get that partying in the desert, burning something big, creating art, etc.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The event culminates on Saturday night when the event's eponymous mascot – an 80-foot-tall anthropomorphic statue known affectionately as The Man – is set on fire in a huge bacchanalian party.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I think it was a night-before-a-day-off party which would have put it on a Saturday.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.The Burning Man community, although widespread and anarchic, has some guiding principles (codified and exemplified in catch phrases) that make the event manageable and possible.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’m seeing spanned over a number of forums, “Burning Man belongs to us…the Burners…let’s take the power back and make it like it used to be”.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And in some small way, that includes those of us who are a part of Burning Man now, in every part we play.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .First and foremost is the concept of "self-sufficiency". With few exceptions (see Buy below), there is "No Vending" of any kind in Black Rock City.^ A magician I once knew took me to an Anon Salon party, and it was there I met the first of an odd brew of desert going characters who convinced me that I too must make the trek to Black Rock.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:15 pm Richard Lee I don’t want the name ‘Burning Man’ and ‘Black Rock City’ put in the public domain.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If Larry really wants BM to change the world, and if he really is against corporate symbols, then the coporation of Black Rock City, LLC should put it out there for the world and LET GO of their own corporate symbol.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Attendees are expected to bring along all their own food, water, shelter and any other supplies they need to live in the desert during the week.^ They all hate each other’s guts.” .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As long as all the constant fucking bickering doesn’t keep me from getting my burn on, they can all sue each other into oblivion.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s just the environment that’s a little better because we’re forced to look at each other during that one week where the TV is not present.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Most attendees are helpful and generous, but travellers should do as much research as possible before leaving for the desert in order to be ready.^ The Baker Beach parties were beach bonfire parties with little planned “participation” other than attendees picking up a rope to help raise the figure before torching.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.An extension of this principle is the Leave No Trace policy; all attendees are expected to clean up any and all trash they create, including burned material, cigarette butts, sawdust or peanut shells.^ As long as all the constant fucking bickering doesn’t keep me from getting my burn on, they can all sue each other into oblivion.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 12, 2007 at 2:35 am Storyteller I admit that I’m in no sense of the word educated on the matters leading up to John leaving BRC LLC, but attending Burning Man over the last 10 years I’ve come to appreciate and trust perhaps above all else the lack of commercialism in the movement.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Many “Burning Man” converts see it as their experience and don’t want to lose it, but the reality is they have no idea of what has gone on behind the scenes.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In previous years leftover detritus at the site of the event has caused alarm for the federal officials who provide the permits for it, and a strict policy of absolutely zero tolerance for leftover trash is needed to keep the event alive.^ The BLM wouldn’t issue a permit to an organization without insurance and an insurance company wouldn’t write a policy to a bunch of volunteers trying pull of an event this size.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Burning Man is organized by a small group of volunteers and paid employees of the Burning Man organization, who deal with the local, state and federal officials in charge of the desert region, and who provide most of the infrastructure services such as emergency medical care and media relations.^ This not a question of cult worship here, it’s simply a question of who does the name ‘burning man’ belong to.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And in some small way, that includes those of us who are a part of Burning Man now, in every part we play.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ First Burning Man is a local culture not as wide spread as one thinks.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .According to the principle of No Spectators, however, all Burning Man attendees are expected to participate in some way: by making art, by doing performances, by doing volunteer work, or just by being freaks.^ Burning Man just ain’t that cool.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We all built Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The idea is that spectators feel no ownership – or the consequent responsibility – for the event, while participants will consider the event their own, and will act as responsibly as if they were throwing the party themselves.^ BORG and the attendees “own” the event because of their ongoing participation and contribution, not because of what they did in the past.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I don’t know you either, you know, so I have no idea what you consider to be “trustworthy”.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I also do not feel ownership of the festival – I am a participant and a member of a limited duration community.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 In fact, they are! There's some "us vs. them" feeling between participants and the "Org", but by and large the No Spectators concept ensures smooth operation and wide participation. .A "burner" is common title or descriptor for a participant of this event and this community.^ Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants.
.Lastly, the community encourages radical self-expression.^ Radical Self-expression .

 ^ Burning Man is now everywhere in the form of an SUV brand that knows nothing of radical self-reliance, experiments in community and self expression, or high (but lowbrow) art and natural beauty.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Note: Radical self-expression doesn't mean you can get hammered and act like a jerk or force yourself on people who don't want to engage with you.

 .There's an "anything goes" atmosphere, pretty much only limited by legal and safety concerns as well as respect for other participants.^ As others have mentioned, there is a protection of the name issue as well, so that the name doesn’t become a generic term – and ultimately get lost to our community altogether.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Nudity is widespread – although many participants will decorate their bodies with paint or ornaments. As a component of the "anything goes" atmosphere of personal freedom and personal choice, drug use is common, though generally discreet. .Furthermore, out of respect for other participants and their individual choices, it would be very unusual for anyone attending the event to ever feel any pressure towards drug use whatsoever.^ There is no way to predict what would actually happen and what the effect would be on the event/movement/organization and the experience of those who would attend future burns.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I would love to see John receive lots of money for his contributions, it just seems wrong to take it from future participants as it would for any other past contributor to do so.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I approached this individual because I sincerely considered he was (& is) person of great veracity & he would respect and lend a hand in my somewhat delusional concept.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Alcohol, however, is plentiful, and free bars exist throughout the city. Fundamental elements of the festival are individual choice and personal freedom. .Numerous art projects on the Playa have an element of danger; and the use of fire in art is quite common, as well as explosives or other dangerous substances.^ The arts festival that they and many others created was not doing well financially, and was in danger of collapse.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For the first time, I was not front row at the burn, I was dissassembling my art and creating a small bon fire on the deep playa.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Many participants speak later of the life-changing nature of the Burning Man experience: that the experience of self-expression changes the way they look at the world.^ Burning Man may be a life-changing experience, but it doesn’t always change your life in a positive way.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What a shallow and horrifying way to look at the world.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is life after burning man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.The City itself is laid out in a circle – centering on the Man – about one and a half miles in diameter.^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When I talk about the art I saw at Burning Man 2006, the Serpant Mother is one of the art instalations that I speak highest of.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Watching the man burn from a mile away does give a one a different perspective.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 The center of the circle is empty desert, punctuated by large art installations. Participants live on a series of 8-10 circular streets that ring the outer edge of the circle; about 20 radial streets cross these at various points. The inner 2-3 streets are reserved for registered theme camps: groups who build large structures and installations with a particularly "interactive" point. Theme camps are open to the public for investigation and use; a typical theme camp has 20-50 members, but some grow to hundreds of campers. .Some groups of theme camps agglomerate into villages, which usually share an overarching meta-theme.^ Some friends of ours snuck a group of folks into an abandoned hospital.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.The street names change each year, based on the theme of that year's event.^ For example – why not re-name the event for this year- change it up to illustrate that it is beyond definition of form.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I have attended 7 of the last 9 events, and it changes every year.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Combined with the fact that the city is torn down and rebuilt each year, so that different services and theme camps are located at wildly different places in the city, this makes for a lot of disorientation and difficulty in finding friends and cohorts.^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I hope you guys could resolve this amicably without taxing us hoipolloi – a LOT of us save year round and dream year round so that we can make it in to the playa.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Participants argue that this can make travelling around the City more adventurous; it definitely leads to serendipitous discoveries. .The night of the annual burning of the Man, participants take away all existing street signs as souvenirs - much like matchbooks - making navigation even more confusing.^ We all built Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ A more detailed account of the preceding story can be found in Brian Dougherty’s history of BM: “This is Burning Man” Little Brown Publishers.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
Some things are constant, though, in an unofficial way. .The radial streets are usually labeled according to clock time (e.g., "10:00" or "4:30"), and spaced about every half-hour.^ January 18, 2007 at 10:36 pm Toast “Did anyone notice that on the 2:00 street there were only 3 or 4 music spaces this year?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Did anyone notice that on the 2:00 street there were only 3 or 4 music spaces this year?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .A large circular village known as Center Camp is (almost always) located at 6:00 on the circle; most of the Burning Man organizations services are located here.^ The event known as Burning Man splits into two different festivals 2.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This not a question of cult worship here, it’s simply a question of who does the name ‘burning man’ belong to.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ John Law, whom I know to be an honorable man, has neither received the credit due him or appropriate compensation for his efforts in organizing, planning and executing Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Other villages are usually placed near 9:00 and 3:00. The innermost circular street – which looks out directly to the central desert area – is called The Esplanade; most of the bigger theme camps line this street. And, of course, The Man is always dead in the center of the City, a convenient landmark.
The Black Rock Desert is an extremely harsh environment. Temperatures are regularly over 100°F, with no natural shade, and almost zero percent humidity. Hundreds of Burning Man participants are treated for dehydration every year; all attendees should drink about 4 liters of water per day, one of which has added electrolytes. .More important survival information is available in the Burning Man Survival Guide [2], a copy of which is given to each participant.^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ A more detailed account of the preceding story can be found in Brian Dougherty’s history of BM: “This is Burning Man” Little Brown Publishers.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Also where you getting that Burning Man’s success after he left made John more bitter?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Get in

.Black Rock City is in the remote Black Rock Desert about 2-3 hours north of Reno, Nevada.^ January 9, 2007 at 5:15 pm Richard Lee I don’t want the name ‘Burning Man’ and ‘Black Rock City’ put in the public domain.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ From the Burning Man timeline 1996 Height of Man: 50 feet Location: Black Rock Desert Participants: 8,000 .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Most travellers arrive by car, bus, truck, RV, or other motor conveyance. From Reno, take Interstate 80 east to exit 43 (Wadworth), then highway 447 north about 100 miles to Gerlach. .Head east (right) at the fork in the road north of Gerlach, and exit onto the Black Rock Desert after about 11 miles (signs should be posted).^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Kevin Evans and I were planning a Cacophony Society event in the Black Rock Desert for late summer 1990.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ After speaking with John Cornwell, I was informed that not only could I not use the word “Burningman” in a post, I was not allowed to use the words “Black Rock” either!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The festival requires all participants to hold tickets; they run about $200-360, and can be significantly cheaper if purchased early in the year.^ That way they’ll have to talk about it on the radio all the time.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But I would also agree that it would be a bit hypocritical to talk about how expensive it is to run the event if they are indeed cashing in on a great scale.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I wonder if perhaps all of these issues, about ticket prices, ownership of the event, control over the name,..
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Attendees from locations too far away from driving usually fly to Reno or San Francisco and either rent cars or other vehicles there, or hook up with locals for rides.^ Besides San Francisco and maybe maybe maybe a few other select cities, I highly doubt Burning Man will become the new advertising campaign across America.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I personally don’t think there is an intent to sell merchandise – the real intent may be to just tighten up the business and pare away other “burning entities” for the sake of future potential legal liability.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Rideshare boards are available on the Burning Man Web site.^ The NPC could be controlled by a board elected from amongst Burning Man members, themselves comprised of Burning Man attendees who register to vote in the board election.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I believe some sort of financial report is available on the Burning Man website or at some point during the year in their report to the public.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .There are special air shuttles offered this year through Advantage Flight Solutions [3] from Reno and the Bay Area directly to the Black Rock desert for a reasonable price.^ When I returned to the Bay Area & started my final year in art school, I rallied a few friends & schoolmates around the idea of planning a Labor Day weekend trip to the Black Rock desert.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.The Green Tortoise Bus Company [4] runs a few bus tours from San Francisco to Black Rock City during the event; food, shelter, and transportation are all provided in the tour package.^ The original event organizing at the Black Rock was easily 90% Cacophony members or alumni.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ All monies taken in by the event were spent immediately on expenses, supplies, transportation, etc.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 9, 2007 at 5:15 pm Richard Lee I don’t want the name ‘Burning Man’ and ‘Black Rock City’ put in the public domain.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Black Rock City creates its own airport [5] (ICAO: no code assigned) for small private planes, run by volunteers.^ January 9, 2007 at 5:15 pm Richard Lee I don’t want the name ‘Burning Man’ and ‘Black Rock City’ put in the public domain.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And with integrity at the center of the equation, that’s their own loss- not Black Rock LLC’s loss.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If Larry really wants BM to change the world, and if he really is against corporate symbols, then the coporation of Black Rock City, LLC should put it out there for the world and LET GO of their own corporate symbol.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 The field is (very hard-packed) dry lake; most flying clubs do not allow non-emergency landings by rental planes on dirt fields. Mountainous desert regions are extremely dangerous for inexperienced and experienced pilots alike, and it's not recommended to fly into this airport unless you are experienced with desert flying.

Get around

.Once participants have arrived in Black Rock City, they are expected to leave their cars or other motor vehicles parked and travel around the city under their own power.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The BORG has actively protected the trademarks, even in cases where it made them look bad (See Black Rock Hardware above), which is what they have to do to maintain them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Cars should only be used in an emergency, or when leaving or entering the city.^ I felt I had entered a parallel world, only this time it was a burningman LLC power grab monopoly on an “art” car full of burners, ecstasy and techno.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Law enforcement officials and the Black Rock Rangers will stop vehicles and may give you a ticket.^ You’re still a BURNER when you are NOT at Black Rock, n’est pas?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thanks to John Law, Larry Harvey, and the multitude of others who either intentionally or inadvertently helped create Black Rock City and Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You have to be an idiot to thing your $250-$280 tickets are not making Larry and gang filthy rich…that money is not all going back into black rock city.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Bicycles are de rigueur for most BRC citizens; the alkali dust of the Playa causes severe damage to bikes, so bring a cheap one that you don't care much about.^ One last point, I don’t think everything about the event is perfect by any means, but I’ve seen a lot learning and improving over the years to have hope.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thank you so much for thinking of this amazing thing that has become Burning Man but you don’t really matter anymore.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But I have never met one and I dont care to know about them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 A good lock is also important; many bikes every year are "accidentally" borrowed and later abandoned, or stolen outright.
.Walking is also a great way to get around; although slower, it's easier to stop and see the many sights if you don't have a big clunky bike to park, lock, unload, etc.^ I want you, Larry and M2 to find a way to resolve this so that everyone wins—because there will surely be many losers if you three can’t reach agreement.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Many “Burning Man” converts see it as their experience and don’t want to lose it, but the reality is they have no idea of what has gone on behind the scenes.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So is doing it at night so you don’t have to see the miles wide cloud of smoke and ash.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
Radically-altered motor vehicles called art cars are an exception to the no-cars rule in BRC. These cars – or buses, or trucks, or what have you – must be permanently and creatively altered to qualify for the exemption. .They must also be licensed by the Black Rock City DMV [6] (Department of Mutant Vehicles), and if running at night must be extremely well-lit in order to prevent human-vehicle accidents.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The BORG has actively protected the trademarks, even in cases where it made them look bad (See Black Rock Hardware above), which is what they have to do to maintain them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.Many art cars have high passenger capacity and will pick up participants on the Playa for a ride, but don't expect or demand a ride from anyone.^ Like many, I have put considerable time and money into my participation – helping with art projects, organizing a camp, helping to put on various events at the festival, and so on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Baker Beach parties were beach bonfire parties with little planned “participation” other than attendees picking up a rope to help raise the figure before torching.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Use caution when boarding or disembarking from any moving vehicle on-playa. While all vehicles within the event's perimeter are required to drive slowly, this does not mean the vehicle is safe to leap from. In 2003, a participant died after falling from an art car.

See

.The art installations and theme camps present at Burning Man change, sometimes radically, each year.^ Nancy) in the early years of Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’m a transplanted midwestern geek who learned of Burning Man from the Bruce Sterling Wired article, and found himself in the middle of the organization a few years later.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Only one man should burn once a year!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Those listed below may or may not be present, or may be significantly altered. .You can check the Who, When, Where guide – available at the Gate of Black Rock City or at the "Playa Info" tent in Center Camp – for locations of theme camps and other installations.^ You’re still a BURNER when you are NOT at Black Rock, n’est pas?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 (Note, though, that theme camps' descriptions are self-reported, and usually greatly exaggerate the interest-factor of the camp.)
.
  • The Man, mathematical center of Black Rock City.^ January 9, 2007 at 5:15 pm Richard Lee I don’t want the name ‘Burning Man’ and ‘Black Rock City’ put in the public domain.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And with integrity at the center of the equation, that’s their own loss- not Black Rock LLC’s loss.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .First created in 1986 by Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, this is central art piece and symbol of the Burning Man event: a 50-foot-tall anthropomorphic wooden statue with a triangle-shaped head, mounted on a pedestal or stand that changes with each year's theme.^ Increasingly, that symbol is Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ What Burning Man is now symbolizes a lot of that for me.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Nancy) in the early years of Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .The Man is lit by neon at night, and due to its location can be seen from most of Black Rock City.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Usually you can climb up onto the pedestal and get a good view of the rest of the City from there, but ask the Black Rock Rangers at the Man before climbing up.^ You’re still a BURNER when you are NOT at Black Rock, n’est pas?
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Despite its name, the Man is purposefully androgynous, or, rather, sexless.
  • The Temple, somewhat past the Man on the main road from Center Camp. Since 2001, artist David Best has created monumental structures on the Playa in the form of 3- or 4-story temples. .Although the design, name, and nominal purpose changes each year, the Temple is usually dedicated to lost friends and relatives.^ For example – why not re-name the event for this year- change it up to illustrate that it is beyond definition of form.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     The Temple is a beautiful and meditative place to spend a few minutes during the day or night.
Other art can be seen in the central Playa area surrounding the Man. .Typically there are 40-50 art installations of various complexity and interactivity on the central Playa.^ Of my 9 years,I have created deep playa art installations for 6 of them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Usually, a wandering path on bicycle or on foot can turn up any number of hidden treasures; ask other participants for this year's "must see" piece.^ I would love to see John receive lots of money for his contributions, it just seems wrong to take it from future participants as it would for any other past contributor to do so.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The Baker Beach parties were beach bonfire parties with little planned “participation” other than attendees picking up a rope to help raise the figure before torching.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ A year later, after the disastrous 1996 event, John and a few other key participants would renounce.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Do

.Burning Man has a "No Spectators" philosophy so, theoretically, everyone should be "Doing" something most of the time.^ Burning Man belongs to everyone.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I could understand John Law suing if the other co-founders of Burning Man had done something unjust.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Many camps revolve around some participatory activity. .There is an official calendar of events [7], but not everything on it happens, and many things not on it do.^ There is no way to predict what would actually happen and what the effect would be on the event/movement/organization and the experience of those who would attend future burns.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are so many things that are in the public domain and they remain un-exploited.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The emperor is still nude, the event is not at all a bad thing (indeed its done many people good as well as ruined a few)but it is NOT all that is good and pure as the driven snow.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Some of the favorites include:
.
  • Yoga Several camps offer yoga sessions, both "serious" and silly.
  • Morning run
  • Body Painting
  • Fire Dancing
  • Belly Dancing
  • Seminars on anything from world affairs to love potions
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Meditation There are daily meditation sessions at sunrise and sunset
  • Weddings Legal, temporary, faux, and every other possible combination.^ I dislike the fact that I have realized for several years that there are mountains of steaming hypocrites that tend to hang out in “First Camp”(elitist prima donnas).
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Get married to your true love by a legal minister or marry yourself to a sock.
  • Massage - ranging from legitimate bodywork to Reiki to Rake-ie to "You look tense, let me rub your shoulders in my tent"
  • Thunder Dome Watch some of the greatest warriors of our time battle for their lives
  • Roller Disco Enjoy some funk-a-fide jams as you skate the rink (skates provided for all burners)

Buy

.Because of the no-vending rule, there's really not all that much to buy in Black Rock City.^ I really have no business to go there.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Another thought: If the Burning Man copyright goes public domain, are burners really going to buy all the Burning Man McDonald’s McNuggets?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 However, many artists, performers and participants bring trinkets of various worth to the event – pins, stickers, buttons, clothes, jewelry, doodads and tchochkees – to gift to other people there. .Stopping to talk with anyone at a theme camp or at an art installation will probably garner you a tchotchke of some kind.^ We were the first theme camp, and the last capitalist stop.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You seem to really need Larry to be some kind of idol.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Bringing your own personalized trinkets, or commercial products like cans of beer or sticks of lip balm, to give away or trade can help grease the wheels when meeting new people.^ The distressing part of this is conflict is that these personal fights will drain a lot of resources away from the production of the annual arts festival.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Come up with your own bm product and start selling it.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I for one would love to see Burning Man respect and honor all the people who helped create it and give it life.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
There are four places you can spend US tender, however. One is at the Center Camp Cafe (see below) for coffee and other snacks. .Another is Camp Arctica (in Center Camp and at the 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock plazas), where Burning Man volunteers sell bags of ice at $3 a pop for participants to use.^ Burning Man becomes Internet phenomenon, attracting participants worldwide.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’m seeing spanned over a number of forums, “Burning Man belongs to us…the Burners…let’s take the power back and make it like it used to be”.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 (The short lifespan of ice in the desert, even in the best of coolers, makes this nod to commercialism an unfortunate necessity.)
Outside of these four locations, vending of any kind, including barter exchange for goods and services of any kind (including illegal substances) is, by general communal consent, frowned upon. .This can range from "trade you some of my poetry for some of your food, man" to "yo, I gots lots of goodies for sale, come back to my camp". Most individuals will automatically assume that anyone requesting to purchase anything, from food to water to ice cream to illegal substances, is either a new participant who didn't bother to read the Burning Man website, or (in the case of requests for purchase/sale of illegal substances) law enforcement officers.^ The news of your law suit has brightened my day immeasurably.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What Burning Man is now symbolizes a lot of that for me.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you want to go to the “real” Burning Man, then do some research, and go..
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 In either case, while vending does and continues to occur at the event, it's generally considered classless on par with selling life insurance at a funeral home.
.To avoid this, most participants purchase all of their items prior to entering the event, and/or make do throughout the week without the things they didn't bring.^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I guess all the yes men they’ve surrounded themselves with convinced them they didn’t have to do that along with anything else they don’t want to do either.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I will not point a finger at BMORG, M2, Larry Harvey, or John Law, as they are all doing the best they can with the tools they have to do what they see as the best thing to do.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Eat

.In keeping with the non-commercial, self-sufficient nature of Burning Man, there are (with one exception) no food stores or restaurants within the borders of Black Rock City.^ There is life after burning man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ On-playa there are no secrets, as freedom and secret-keeping do not go together.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Your strange combination of nillisum, hero-worship, sad hippy cliche, and self-centeredness typifies way too much of the Burning Man ‘life’.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Participants are expected to bring in all the food they need for the week, as well as any cooking equipment needed to prepare it.^ Any corporate use of it — well people expect the symbol to come to represent freedom, self expression, and gifting — if they want to put the Man on shoes and give them away to anyone that needs shoes — go ahead!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.That said, many theme camps give away food on a daily basis or have special events with free food.^ Espically when so many give so much every year for free.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Like many, I have put considerable time and money into my participation – helping with art projects, organizing a camp, helping to put on various events at the festival, and so on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ They began selling the very things the diggers were giving away for free.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Scan the theme camp listings and the Who What Where event guide for details.^ The store we started was a theme camp in Gerlach poking fun at the event.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Talking to neighbors can also garner invitations to more informal meals.
  • Center Camp Cafe, Center Camp (large circular canvas tent in the middle of Center Camp circle). Open 24 hours. .Run by the Burning Man organization and staffed with volunteers, this large dusty cafe is one of the very few places in Black Rock City where money changes hands.^ The “real” Burning Man is not an object or place.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Money is going to where it needs to in order for Burning Man to be the magical place it is.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The money that b-man organizers make, I feel, is fair and reasonable compensation for the effort of what they produce, holding space for a lot of freedom, creativity and connection.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Only specialty coffee drinks and tea drinks are available (no food). There are also musical performances at all times of day or night, as well as yoga classes and the like. You can meet veterans and newcomers alike in the Cafe. $3-$5 (per item).
  • Black Rock Diner [8] Grilled cheese sandwiches and good vibrations served from midnight until the supplies run out.

Drink

.Again, non-commercialism means there are no paid bars in Black Rock City.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thanks to John Law, Larry Harvey, and the multitude of others who either intentionally or inadvertently helped create Black Rock City and Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .However, a large number of bars exist at Burning Man.^ I’m seeing spanned over a number of forums, “Burning Man belongs to us…the Burners…let’s take the power back and make it like it used to be”.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Anyways, so having such large publicity might suffocate the event to the point of killing the culture of the Burning Man community.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Our store was called “Blackrock Hardware” and was in the old Blackrock bar in Gerlach; directly across from Burning Man headquarters.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Participants can walk up and order or be given a drink at any of these bars scattered around the city, but most will have supplies limited to a house specialty drink or a few hard liquor choices and mixers. .Barter bars depend on donations from "customers" to keep going; providing ice, cups, mixer, liquor, limes or entertainment will make you a much more welcome guest.^ So is being in nature with 39,000 of your closest friends and making so much noise you can’t hear or see nature.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Read the whole legal brief, it gives you a much better idea of what’s going on.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ OK, so nothing I say is probably going to matter much to you.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Golden Cafe [9] is generally open days only and has the only true glassware on the playa. Live music (no covers) improvised between house and guest musicians. .Sometimes runs a candlelit supper club at night (reservations must be made in advance), and is said to have introduced the first live lobster tank to Burning Man.^ January 9, 2007 at 7:46 pm Doug Rutley Well, I hope that your intent is to truly live to the ideals of Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ First Burning Man is a local culture not as wide spread as one thinks.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Also where you getting that Burning Man’s success after he left made John more bitter?
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Lucifer is the proprietor.
  • Hair of the Dog [10] (also known as "Spanky's Bar"). Open 24 hours, more or less. A venerable establishment in BRC, HOTD is a large and spacious bar with a number of couches and tables for guests. Musical groups perform on the provided stage. .Bar owner Spanky is friendly and knowledgeable.
  • Black Rock Brewery [11] is a collaboration by home brewers from many other theme camps, producing ales, ginger beer, lavender mead, and other strange brews which they distribute around the city.
  • Newt's Bar, Blue Light District.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The BORG has actively protected the trademarks, even in cases where it made them look bad (See Black Rock Hardware above), which is what they have to do to maintain them.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Hours vary; usually open in the afternoons or around dusk. Features a wide variety of cocktails, and occasonally Newt's delicious homebrew beers and wines. .The Blue Light District is home to many of the oldest of the old-timers in the Burning Man community, and most of them hang out at Newt's at least part of the day.^ And in some small way, that includes those of us who are a part of Burning Man now, in every part we play.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Burning Man, since it’s inception has depended upon the gratis efforts of many.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     A great education can be had from any of your neighbors at this bar.

Sleep

.There are no paid accommodations in Black Rock City.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thanks to John Law, Larry Harvey, and the multitude of others who either intentionally or inadvertently helped create Black Rock City and Burning Man.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Participants should bring their own camping accoutrements such as a tent and sleeping bag; it's also a good idea to have some sort of shade structure to make napping during the heat of the day bearable.^ And that’s fine, but it seems that John holds some sort of stake into this whole thing, and he’s trying to use it to impose his idea of what things should be like (maybe i’m wrong) for some sort of improvement?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The good ideas should be separated from the bad by people experiencing them, not by enforcement.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But, as to the Burning Man trademark stuff, some burner should own it, to protect it from commodification.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
Many theme camps feature a "chill space" or other area for lounging. .In a pinch, these can make for good naptime stopovers during the day or night, but don't overstay your welcome or you might have some problems with the locals.^ Some of you know this history, some don’t.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So is being in nature with 39,000 of your closest friends and making so much noise you can’t hear or see nature.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Some such efforts you might wish to defend.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

Stay safe

Black Rock City is not without danger. .The odds are unlikely that you will suffer a major catastrophe, but every year something bad does happen to a handful of people.^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s also a good idea, bad blood or not, for them to acknowledge that you were critical to the creation of this thing, and pay you something decent for it.” .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When you look at the financials I’m sure Larry has put a cool million in his pocket every year.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Black Rock City is far more regulated than it once was (much to the dismay of many jaded old burners) but it is still on the fringes of being a lawless society.^ You’re still a BURNER when you are NOT at Black Rock, n’est pas?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’d much rather go to that than to the “Black Rock Arts Festival.” .
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I’m not saying that people who get paid that much don’t deserve it and i have no doubt its still below prevailing wages for stuff like that but its a lot more in the ball park than the dpw kids ever get.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
.
  • There are multiple art installations and interactive creations throughout the city that aren't exactly "OSHA compliant". Be aware of the stability of the structures around you, especially in the event of a wind storm.^ Of my 9 years,I have created deep playa art installations for 6 of them.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     A giant unstable shade structure (sometimes weighing hundreds to thousands of pounds) can be sent flying through the air if attached to a parachute or something similar. .The wind can be VERY powerful there and if someone doesn't properly secure their camp people can be severely injured.
  • There is a "Burning Man Survival" guide at [12] It is important to read this guide and take it seriously.^ There is life after burning man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ January 11, 2007 at 12:16 pm Perspective Burning Man should hold the trademark, but STOP using the name.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I’m seeing spanned over a number of forums, “Burning Man belongs to us…the Burners…let’s take the power back and make it like it used to be”.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     It outlines the basic necessities to be self-sufficient and survive the event.
  • There is widespread drug use at the event; it is an open environment but do not tempt fate. .There is law enforcement, and they WILL arrest you if they see you in possession of, or especially selling or purchasing.^ If there wasn’t an event the BLM and the law enforcement etc.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If there was any way that they could have written out John Law I’m sure they would have tried, but he hung on much longer than I did.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Problem there is you will get a raft of opinions on what they would like to see.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     Don't be stupid. .Also be leery of any drugs randomly offered to you by strangers.
  • Make SURE that you drink enough water so that you are pissing clear (the name of a local event newspaper is "Piss Clear". The desert environment at a high altitude will make you EXTREMELY sick if you do not respect it and take proper precautions.
  • Don't be a darkwad.^ This event, we need a name, will take place somewhere in Hunters Point I think .
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They rarely if ever extend a thank you, they do not recognize people for their contributions and achievements that benefit the event, and finally when you have been away long enough someone else takes full credit for what you did.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Literaly speaking none of you legaly own the words “burning man” in relation to the event in the desert.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Always illuminate yourself at night unless you want to risk getting hit by thousands of people flying across the playa on bicycles, motorized scooters, and art cars ranging from tiny to enormous.^ I hate to say it though I do also think Mr. In your public statement you talks about wanting to Cancel the BM trademark to make it “Belong to the people” .
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     As the population increases, so does the traffic. .But remember, glowsticks create garbage, use LEDs and/or ElectroLuminescent wire.
  • Black Rock City is an accepting, open, fun-loving community full of great people.^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Should Burning Man vanish as a trademark, I could even create an art festival in another part of the Black Rock Desert at any time I could get a permit for it and call it Burning Man.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The people that work their asses off year round and the people that make Black Rock City happen every year are the ones that own Burning Man now.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Unfortunately as in any other city in the world there will always be a few bad seeds.^ But there’s always the few that gave up and are not there anymore to help this happen.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Besides San Francisco and maybe maybe maybe a few other select cities, I highly doubt Burning Man will become the new advertising campaign across America.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Mostly the price is the price of attending the event but there are other prices besides money- not always nice or cheap prices.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .There have occasionally been rapes, and bicycles and other things will end up stolen from a few unlucky people.^ But there’s always the few that gave up and are not there anymore to help this happen.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Soon, people attending will be there not because they heard about it from other Burners, but because “I saw this thing on Mtv.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This is deliberate, so that OSI can stop people from calling any old thing “Open Source.” In other words, the term is controlled to *keep* people from unfairly trading under and profiting from the term.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Just remember that if you are in trouble, yell for help!^ If I can help you in any way just let me know.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .People there absolutely WILL help you.
  • Remember when driving to, or exiting the event, to be patient.^ If you wanna go to the Burning Man 2 down the street – because you like the people there more, then you should be able to..
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I hope that the three of you work out your differences, and remember that there is a whole community out there that doesn’t need to be torn apart by this.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I’d be willing to bet $20 that there are more people driving Subarus in the Bay Area then there are folks that go to Burning Man for example… .
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     It is only a two-lane road, and passing is difficult. Many people are driving huge, awkward loads, that are not properly secured. .The key is just to be patient, stay in line, and you'll eventually get there.^ But there’s exploitation right there of the image of naked women at BM. You’ll tell me, yeah but this is someone from the community, he understands it, and respects it… oh yeah?
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Hey, what the fuck are you doing, you’ll kill somebody like that, do it over there, thanks” etc.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     .People look like huge jerks when they take off flying down the other lane in no-passing zones just so they can get two cars ahead in the SAME line.^ I for one am taking the stickers off of my car and from this day forward will no longer refer to what consider my yearly haj into a community of peace, love, giving and suspended judgement by it’s given name.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If you wanna go to the Burning Man 2 down the street – because you like the people there more, then you should be able to..
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ (I just now looked it up on the B-Man website to find out it’s name and ensure they did fund it.
    • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

     This endangers the locals who use those roads too. Be a courteous driver!
  • Avoid trampolines.

Get out

.To minimize the impact of the event on nearby communities (not least to minimize levels of airborne dust), participants are expected not to leave and re-enter Black Rock City except in case of emergency.^ You’re still a BURNER when you are NOT at Black Rock, n’est pas?
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Apparently human “collateral damage” is quite acceptable in and around Black Rock City – after all, the party must go on!
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The BORG has actively protected the trademarks, even in cases where it made them look bad (See Black Rock Hardware above), which is what they have to do to maintain them.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 .To leave the event and re-enter in a car, a $20-per-person fee is charged each time.^ I felt I had entered a parallel world, only this time it was a burningman LLC power grab monopoly on an “art” car full of burners, ecstasy and techno.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Everyone else got out (barely in time) while two of the event organizers stayed behind, as did I (I used to be an EMT so it would have been wrong to leave) and so did John.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
Buses do leave Center Camp once or twice a day for trips to the nearby towns of Gerlach and Empire; they require a $10-per-person payment. Empire has a small store for buying groceries or camping supplies, but it has a meager selection.
.The exodus from the event on Sunday and Monday are notoriously traffic-ridden and crowded, as practically all participants try to leave on the same one-lane road off the desert at the same time.^ But it’s such a drop in the bucket overall that all this hysteria about giant corporations trying to make a buck off of it is silly.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Also it supports the idea of community espoused by the creators all the way through the event structure and not just for the volunteers/artists/and participants.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The strike might have been a Monday though after our Sunday off as the repercussions and the crew’s unhappiness with Will due to this event lasted for quite some time, until Will left the work-ranch.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 Waits of up to 6 hours to travel the 10 miles or so to the blacktop are not unheard of. .Veterans often leave on Saturday – before the Burn – or wait until Tuesday when the event is officially concluded.^ January 12, 2007 at 3:39 pm Storyteller Perhaps I should have waited until I was rested before posting.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s my understanding that this event, along with the other organizer’s response to it, is what mostly lead John to leave Burning Man altogether.
  • Does Burning Man Belong to Everyone? « John Law 10 February 2010 12:48 UTC johnlaw.laughingsquid.com [Source type: Original source]
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